Introduction
I am the Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). We were founded in 1952 as a nuclear weapons laboratory, and national security continues to be our core mission. In addition, we have major programs in energy, environment, and biosciences. Our permanent staff numbers approximately 7300, with over 1000 Ph.D.'s distributed over a broad range of disciplines in the physical sciences and engineering.I am here today to support the FY 1996 budget submission by DOE Defense Programs to pursue its Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan. The program plans being developed by DOE are cost conscious, take maximal advantage of the special capabilities at each of the three national security laboratories, and begin to make necessary investments in the tools needed for assessment and certification of the stockpile without nuclear testing. These investments include the National Ignition Facility and the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, which are of particular significance to LLNL. I also support the budget submission by the DOE Office of Nonproliferation and National Security, which sponsors our important contributions in the areas of nonproliferation, arms control, and intelligence analysis.
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