Report Release: The Role of the Reliable Replacement Warhead The United Stated Nuclear Weapons Program
Date: 24 April 2007 Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building
Capitol Hill
Washington, DC Sponsored by: Benn Tannenbaum Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), through its Nuclear Weapons Complex Assessment Committee, chartered a study in May, 2006 to examine the possible role the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) might play in the future of the United States nuclear weapons program. The study was motivated by concerns expressed by the DOE/NNSA and the nuclear weapons Laboratories that the current Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) might be inadequate to maintain the nuclear stockpile in the long term, and that the RRW approach could be the best way to resolve those concerns.
This briefing, which Bruce Tarter, Director Emeritus of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Chair of the panel, detailed the findings of this report.
This event is directly associated with the following:
Publications United States Nuclear Weapons Program: The Role of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (2007) Nuclear Weapons Complex Assessment CommitteeBruce Tarter, Chair, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (retired)Philip Coyle, Center for Defense InformationCharles Curtis, Department of Energy (retired)Steve Fetter, University of MarylandJohn Foster, Consultant, Northrop Grumman Space TechnologySteve Guidice, Department of Energy (retired)Siegfried Hecker, Stanford University/Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired)Eugene Ives, Department of Energy (retired)Raymond Jeanloz, University of California, BerkeleyRobert Selden, Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired)Michael Telson, University of CaliforniaEllen Williams, University of MarylandRichard Wagner, Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired)StaffFrancis Slakey, American Physical Society, Washington OfficeBenn Tannenbaum, American Association for the Advancement of Science
