Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Refine and More Effectively Manage Its New Approach for Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons

United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2006-02-03 monographic deposited born digital 56 p. GA 1.13:GAO-06-261 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261 P0b002ee18037d50c f:d06261 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261 GAO-06-261 Evaluation methods Laboratories Nuclear weapons Performance measures Program evaluation Program management Research and development Research programs Safety regulation Safety standards Weapons research and development DOE Stockpile Stewardship Program Other Written Product A46337 Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Refine and More Effectively Manage Its New Approach for Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons In 1992, the United States began a unilateral moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons. To compensate for the lack of testing, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) developed the Stockpile Stewardship Program to assess and certify the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear stockpile without nuclear testing. In 2001, NNSA's weapons laboratories began developing what is intended to be a common framework for a new methodology for assessing and certifying the safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile without nuclear testing. GAO was asked to evaluate (1) the new methodology NNSA is developing and (2) NNSA's management of the implementation of this new methodology. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261.pdf GAO-06-261 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-261 Other Written Product GAO-06-261; Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Refine and More Effectively Manage Its New Approach for Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons; Evaluation methods Laboratories Nuclear weapons Performance measures Program evaluation Program management Research and development Research programs Safety regulation Safety standards Weapons research and development DOE Stockpile Stewardship Program