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GAO Report on Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Refine and More Effectively Manage Its New Approach for Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons, GAO-06-261, February 3, 2006. Highlights.

  • “In 2001, NNSA’s weapons laboratories began developing what is intended to be a common framework for a new methodology for assessing and certifying the safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile without nuclear testing. GAO was asked to evaluate (1) the new methodology NNSA is developing and (2) NNSA’s management of the implementation of this new methodology.”
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