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Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. Making more is uncertain

By Dylan Spaulding | Nuclear Weapons

Artist's concept shows future ICBM blasting into sky

Another reason to cancel the Sentinel missile: the rising cost of its nuclear warhead

By Stephen Young | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

The Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos, in front of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Photo credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production

By Curtis T. Asplund, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons

The troubled Mixed-oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River Site is proposed to be transformed into a plutonium pit production facility. Photo (c) Timothy Mousseau, 2019.

Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed

By Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

What really went wrong at WIPP: An insider’s view of two accidents at the only US underground nuclear waste repository

By David Klaus | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The assault on Los Alamos National Laboratory: A drama in three acts

By Hugh Gusterson | Uncategorized