Robert kuckuck lanl biography
- In this interview, David Zierler, Oral Historian for AIP, Interviews Robert Kuckuck, director emeritus of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has a proud history of almost 80 Robert Kuckuck.
- Kuckuck spent 38 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he worked predominantly in underground testing.
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By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Lasers, underground explosive testing, the Cold War – it all sounds like material for a spy novel. These are some of the topics former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Deputy Director Robert Kuckuck will discuss during a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fuller Lodge.
The talk, “Cold War Recollections: A Livermore Underground Test Perspective,” is part of the Los Alamos Historical Society’s lecture series.
In addition to Kuckuck’s talk, the Historical Society is hosting an “Experience Auction” fundraiser, complete with a pizza and ice cream party at 6 p.m. at the lodge. Rather than featuring “stuff” the Historical Society’s auction will feature many different activities, such as a tour of the first site for Ashley Pond’s Ranch School and a behind-the-scenes look at the New Mexico History Museum. There will also be a business meeting before the lecture begins.
Kuckuck spent 38 years at L
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Our History
Our main responsibility: national security
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has a proud history of almost 80 years of science and innovation to protect the nation
LANL's main responsibility is to ensure our nation's security through nuclear deterrence—this includes stewardship of our nation's nuclear weapons to assure our allies and deter our adversaries. The Laboratory applies the best scientific and engineering solutions to our national security mission and to many of the world's most difficult challenges.
LANL began in 1943, a few years after the start of World War II, for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb.
It took just 27 months. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. This test proved that scientists at LANL had successfully weaponized the atom.
By this time, Hitler had been defeated in Europe, but the Japanese Empire continued an aggressive war. So to try to end World War II, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August. Sho
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India-United States Cooperation on Global Security: Summary of a Workshop on Technical Aspects of Civilian Nuclear Materials Security (2013)
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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Session Moderators
R. M. Suresh Babu received his M.A. in physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in 1984. Since then he has been engaged in development of safety-critical software and control system software for nuclear power plants (NPPs). He was the chief designer of the first software-based reactor protection system used in an Indian NPP. He has also developed many real-time nuclear plant simulators for operator training and control sy
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