CanyonAg77 said:
The arsenal is either in missile silos, on submarines, at a select few Air Force Bases, or in Amarillo.
It is not at Los Alamos.
Regarding nukes, they are the design agency. They do the basic research and design, and Pantex is the one slapping them together.
Los Alamos also does much, much more than nukes. It is an incredible place doing bleeding edge research on a number of projects.
As a current Air Force Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, I am compelled to expand on this a little - the National Security Labs (Los Alamos, Livermore, and Sandia) do incredible work outside of the nuclear arena in military and non-military fields. Livermore, for example,
has used its supercomputers to gain new insight into traumatic brain injury and develop
modern, low-collateral damage conventional munitions that are in high-demand on the battlefield...and those just scratch the surface of their non-nuclear work. They also do amazing science every day that continues to ensure our nuclear arsenal is ready for the worst and reinforce the credibility of our strategic deterrent.
Proud for A&M to be in this role at LANL and excited for what the partnership between our great university and one of the world's greatest centers for research and development will yield for our country and humanity in the future.