The U.S. Government Just Declassified Cold War-Era Docs About DIY Nukes
During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.
Chinese Scientists Have Developed a Powerful New Microwave Weapon: A Converged Energy Beam
In 2024, seven vehicles in western China each transmitted a high-powered microwave beam that converged precisely in both time ...
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US lab creates world’s brightest X-ray source with 2x intensity for fusion research
US scientists create the world's brightest X-ray source using metal foam and the NIF laser, with potential applications in ...
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World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...
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How Japan took the lead in the race to discover element 119
After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
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World's Fastest Supercomputer Goes Online, Focusing On Classified Research
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California is now home to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Dubbed ...
Four takeaways from the Los Alamos National Laboratory 'State of the Lab'
Los Alamos National Laboratory is planning to further the field of artificial intelligence and will increase its capacity for manufacturing new plutonium pits in the coming year, according to Lab ...
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El Capitan: World’s fastest supercomputer to secure US nuclear arsenal powers up
El Capitan' is the world's fastest supercomputer, achieving 1.742 exaFLOPS in the High-Performance Linpack benchmark.
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Inside ‘El Capitan’ the Most Powerful Supercomputer Ever Built. It Will Simulate Nuclear Weapons
With its 2.746 exaFLOPS peak performance, “El Capitan” outpaces every other supercomputer on the planet, including the former titleholder, Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For perspective, ...
World's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan," goes online to safeguard US nuclear weapons
El Capitan can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale supercomputer. It's the world's third exascale machine ...
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National Ignition Facility laser at LLNL creates world's brightest X-ray source
"Your dentist's X-ray machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy metal plate; the electrons in the beam ...
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El Capitan: The Fastest Computer on Earth
In a groundbreaking achievement, El Capitan, a supercomputer developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been verified as the world's ...