The Los Alamos/Arzamas-16 Collaboration on Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields and Ultrahigh Energy Pulsed Power
Abstract
The end of the Cold War has made possible some remarkable scientific adventures--joint research projects between scientific institutions of the United States and the Russian Federation. Perhaps most unprecedented of the new partnerships is a formal collaboration which has been established between the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the two institutes which designed the first nuclear weapons for their respective countries. In early 1992, emerging governmental policy in the US and Russia began to encourage "lab-to- lab" interactions between the nuclear weapons design laboratories of the two countries. Each government recognized that as nuclear weapons stockpiles and design activities were being reduced, highly qualified scientists were becoming available to use their considerable skills in fundamental scientific research of interest to both nations. VNIIEF and LANL quickly recognized a common interest in the technology and applications of magnetic flux compression, the technique for converting the chemical energy released by high-explosives into intense electrical pulses and intensely concentrated magnetic energy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA639618
Entities
People
- A. I. Pavlovskii
- C. A. Ekdahl
- C. M. Fowler
- Irvin R. Lindemuth
- Robert E. Reinovsky
- S. M. Younger
- V. K. Chernyshev
- V. N. Mokhov
Organizations
- Los Alamos National Laboratory