Background Section 3545 of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requires that each Federal agency conduct an annual independent evaluation of their information security program and provide a report to the Office of Management ...
Tag Archives: Department of Energy
Proposal Nuclear Radiation Effects on Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures, July 1959
Background The background to how this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request played out is the most interesting part of this. It started with seeing reference to the document in a bibliography about Air Force Plant 67, or the Georgia Nuclear ...
A Report Card on the Department of Energy’s Nonproliferation Programs with Russia, dated January 10, 2001 – by Howard Baker, Lloyd Cutler
Background Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, we have witnessed the dissolution of an empire having over 40,000 nuclear weapons, over a thousand metric tons of nuclear materials, vast quantities of chemical and biological weapons materials, ...
Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, September 1990
Background The Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, dated September 1990, was first requested in June of 2009, and it was not until February of 2017 that it was finally released. Nearly EIGHT years passed from the point of requesting, to ...
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Development and Production Manual (D & P)
Background NNSA receives its authority for the responsibility for all weapon and weapon-related functions from 50 USC 2402, Chapter 41. DOE/NNSA and DoD cooperate in the development, production, and maintenance of nuclear weapons. Figure 1.1-1 ...