Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was a key factor in the development in the atomic bomb, and, though his work was not completely recognized until his death, his accomplishments are the basis of theoretical physics today. This book by Ray Monk describes the life of Oppenheimer through the theoretical physicist’s and his college’s works. Monk speaks of Oppenheimer’s work during the Manhattan project and how this wartime affair caused a shift of theoretical physics to the United States; furthermore, he…

The Manhattan Project was in the early 1939. The German have found out how to make the first Uranium atom bomb. The Uranium atom bomb can do a lot of damage to a place if it happen to go off. Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi felt the need that the president needed to know of the great danger that may be ahead of them. Fermi traveled all the way to Washington to tell the government officials his concern, not a lot of them shared the same uneasiness that he did. Einstein then had to send a letter…

article regarding scheduling in the different standards set, tracking system, graphics analysis capability, and IT network. The “Exemplary EVM at Lawrence Livermore Labs” using PPM (project portfolio management) and techniques for project management with the application of EVM as a best practice. According to the article “Exemplary EVM at Lawrence Livermore Labs” by Visitacion (2007) reads, “ keeping focused on these three components and employing the ANSI standard, LLNL was successful in its…

other friends, we would be representing our school in the Sandia Regional Science Bowl. For the past year and a half, we had been hard at work, studying various sciences and practicing playing as a team in the hopes of winning and advancing to the national level. As I waited, I felt the rush of emotions that precede all contests, and my mind began to wander. Would we win? Would we be eliminated early on? All these thoughts and more flew around my head, and before I knew it Sujay was ready and we…

US Army Deputy G2 asked me to assess the operational viability of a wide-area surveillance (WAS) program from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory called SONOMA, which I executed while I also leading the PTDS program. The Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDRE), OSD AT&L directed US Army to deploy SONOMA’s capability into Iraq within 90 days. I received a technology demonstration and assessed SONOMA would require $25M and 18 months of additional development to adequately…

Nuclear energy has the potential to be the most deadly killer our world has ever seen, but if used properly, our nation can benefit greatly from it. The idea of harnessing the power of nuclear reactions has been around for many years, however, the United States has not seemed to capitalize on its usefulness yet. There are currently only 62 active nuclear power plants with 100 reactors in 31 states. These reactors only provide about 20 percent of all energy used in the United States (“How Many…

Manning the flight controls, you guide the aircraft into hostile airspace over your predestined target. You pull the trigger and launch an explosive projectile into a building housing suspected terrorist affiliates, annihilating it into a pile of rubble. Seconds later, your vehicle is struck by an anti-aircraft missile and crashes violently into the ground. You get up and leisurely stroll away from the scene without a single scratch. The entire time, you were staring at a computer screen while…