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First 3D Simulations of Complete Nuclear Detonations

Posted by michael on from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

jhiv writes: "The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) reports that 'Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories have completed the first full-system three-dimensional simulations of a nuclear weapon's explosion'. The simulations are two of the largest computer simulations ever attempted, each taking weeks to complete on the ASCI White supercomputer. The Los Alamos team used the ASCI Blue Mountain supercomputer to visualize the results. Additional coverage can be found in this story in the Albuquerque Journal."

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  1. Innovation... by kwishot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This may be regarded by some as flamebait or possibly even offtopic, but has anyone thought about how this stuff is funded? "The National Nuclear Security Administration" certainly sounds like a military-related entity to me.

    Would we have these advances in technology if the Democrats were still in office?
    A lot of people criticize GWB for being dumb, or whatever stupid reasons they can think up, but a lot of innovative technologies are researched by the military. Higher military funding = more technological innovation.
    I'm not sure that this particular event is directly related to something GWB has done or pushed for, but I do know that there are a lot of things that have (or will) come from Government/Military research.

    Say the laws were different and good ol' Bill was still in office, do you think we would have awesome completely 3-dimensional simulations of Nuclear blasts? Hell no. We're lucky "The National Nuclear Security Administration" even lasted through that mess of 8 years.
    Thoughts anyone?

    -kwishot

    1. Re:Innovation... by quinto2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Re:will this work? by grub · · Score: 1, Offtopic



    I made one lousy +5 joke about Jon Katz, and now I'm banned from moderating.
    Interesting. What's the poop?

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  3. Re:will this work? by CmdrTaco+(editor) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    North Vietnam? I'm sorry, but please tell me you're joking.