Los Alamos Science 1993 №21

The Laboratory's 50th Anniversary. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990, 268 p.
Popular science magazine about new achievements in physics, experimental techniques and computer simulation.
In 1993, LANL's 50th anniversary, the Cold War was over, and the Laboratory was in the midst of changing its identity. This volume captures the mood of the times through a candid roundtable among LANL scientists and former Director Harold Agnew. Hans Bethe and Edward Teller offer separate visions of the Laboratory's future, and feature stories examine the new "stewardship" of the nuclear weapons stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing, the threat of nuclear proliferation, and the new peacetime collaborations between former rivals in Russian and American nuclear weapons laboratories. Ten short articles show the breadth of research at LANL ranging forces from studies of nature's fundamental to superconducting wires for efficient delivery of electric power. This volume illustrates the evolving role of national laboratories in national security, energy security, and big science.Perspectives on the Laboratory.
Taking on the Future – (Harold Agnew and Los Alamos scientists discuss the potential of the Laboratory).
What Is the Future of Los Alamos? – (by Hans A. Bethe).
The Laboratory of the Atomic Age – (by Edward Teller).
Bombs Away? – (by Jack Howard).The Stewardship of Nuclear Weapons.
Redefining the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program and the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex – (by John D. Immele and Philip D. Goldstone)
An Expanding Role for AGEX: Above-Ground Experiments for Nuclear Weapons Physics – (by Philip D. Goldstone).
AGEX I - The Explosives Regime of Weapons Physics - (by Timothy R. Neal).
Line-imaging Laser Interferometers for Measuring Velocities - (by Willard F. Hemsing).
AGEX II - The High-Energy-Density Regime of Weapons Physics - (by Stephen M. Younger).
Deja Vu All Over Again - (by Houston T Hawkins).
Proliferation Challenges in Perspective – (by Joseph F. Pilat).
Russian-American Collaborations: The Transition to Peacetime Work – (by Stephen M. Younger).
Interview with Alexander Ivanovich Pavlovskii.Science and Innovation at Los Alamos.
Probing the Structure of Matter: A History of Accelerators at Los Alamos – (by Richard A. Reichelt).
Medium-Energy Physics at LAMPF – (by Mikkel B. Johnson).
Neutrons in Our Future: A Proposed High-Flux Spallation Neutron Source – (by Roger Pynn).
Malone Refrigeration: An Old Solution to a New Problem – (by Gregory W. Swift).
Mixing and Chaotic Microstructures – (by Yuefan Deng, James Glimm, and David H. Sharp).
Novel Electronic Materials: The MX Family - (by Alan R. Bishop and Basil I. Swanson).
Unification of Nature's Fundamental Forces: A Continuing Search - (by Geoffrey B. West, Frederick M. Cooper, Emil Mottola, and Michael P. Mattis).
Testing the Standard Model of Particle Interactions Using State-of-the-Art Supercomputers – (by Rajan Gupta).
Parity Violation in Nuclear Physics: Signature of the Weak Force – (by Gerald T. Garvey and Susan J. Seestrom).
Molecular Wires for Ultrafast Circuits - (by Antonio Redondo).
Experimental Structural Biology - (by Jill Trewhella).
Crystals and Ultrasound: Old-fashioned Materials Science - (by Zachary Fisk and Albert Migliori).
Machines That Learn: Adaptive Computation with Artificial Neural Networks - (by Roger D. Jones).
Climate, the Ocean, and Parallel Computing – (by Robert C Malone, Richard D. Smith, and John K. Dukowicz).
Superconductivity: Physics, Electrical Cables, and Industry – (by James L. Smith).
Science Policy: Past and Future – (by Robert W. Seidel).
Los Alamos: Beginning the Second Fifty Years – (by Siegfried S. Hecker).