Plutonium: The First Fifty Years from the US DOE
DOE Office of Technical and Scientific Information
DOE Office of Fissile Materials Disposition
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Responsible for oversight of all activities in DOE"s nuclear weapons complex affecting nuclear health and safety
Implementation plan for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration)
OpenNet (DOE Office of Declassification) Home Page
Openness Press Conference Fact Sheets: January 15; 1997
- Links to declassified information
Search the DOE Opennet Text Database
- Summarizes historical nuclear declassification decisions; and contains a great of deal of formerly classified data
Status Report of "Paths to Closure"
- Nuclear weapons production cleanup estimate
Department of Energy Home Page
- What was wrong with "www.doe.gov"?
Hanford Reservation
U.S. Nuclear Detection Technology to Help Secure Russian Borders"
- DOE News Release; September 2; 1998
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Came into existence Mar. 1 2000; primarily tasked with security oversight in collects together various DOE and DOD offices with a combined staff of 2000
Nuclear Regulatory Commission home page
National Ignition Facility and Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Resource Page
- Not a government site but one hosted by the Natural Resources Defense Council
Nevada Test Site (location of most US nuclear tests)
DOE Pulse - Science & Tech Highlights from the National Labs
AlliedSignal Kansas City Plant: DOE manufacturing facility for nuclear weapon components
DOE Information Bridge
- Excellent link for accessing millions of pages of on-line information
"Drawing Back the Curtain of Secrecy: Restricted Data Declassification Decisions, 1946 to the Present (January 1, 1999)"
- Version RDD-5 (1 Jan 1999), update on RDD-4. Lots of interesting bits of information about nuclear weapons.
"Drawing Back the Curtain of Secrecy: Restricted Data Declassification Decisions, 1946 to the Present (January 1, 2000)"
- Version RDD-6 (1 Jan 2000) Alas not much different form RDD-5
Pantex Plant (where nuclear weapons are built; serviced; and disassembled)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle
Savannah River Site
State Department's Bureau of South Asian Affairs