NIF-ty exercise machine: is NIF a fancy cross-trainer for weapon scientists, or a covert way to design new weapons. (National Ignition Facility for laser projects at Lawrence Livermore lab)

The new NIF laser facility would be capable of delivering more than the 100 trillion watts of the present Nova laser. Some see the NIF as a way to design new weapons. Others think the weapons issue has being overplayed and may have done damage to the work of the anti-nuclear groups.

The Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the most powerful laser in the world. But this year the Energy Department requested more than $60 million in planning and engineering money for a National Ignition Facility (NIF) to be built at Livermore--a $1.1 billion project that would be 40 times more powerful than the Nova.

As of late July, it looked as if Energy would get less than it ...

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