<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Defense Tech &#187; Los Alamos and Labs</title> <atom:link href="http://defensetech.org/category/los-alamos-and-labs/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://defensetech.org</link> <description>The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:07:13 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Sandia’s New Smart Bullet</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/31/sandias-new-smart-bullet/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/31/sandias-new-smart-bullet/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:29:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Ammo and Munitions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video Lounge]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16283</guid> <description><![CDATA[In case you haven’t seen it, Sandia National Labs is working on a self-guided bullet for small arms that can hit targets a mile away. Kinda like a small version of the Army’s Excalibur smart artillery round. 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Sci-fi writers and military planners have dreamed of such things for years. The problem is, the electromagnetic pulse often associated with cooking electronic systems is usually generated by the detonation of a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/09/22/air-force-successfully-fires-electromagnetic-weapon/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>58</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lockheed’s New STOL Airlifter Design</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/09/15/lockheeds-new-stol-airlifter-design/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/09/15/lockheeds-new-stol-airlifter-design/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=14517</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well done to Secret Projects forum for spotting this nugget that everyone else missed. This stealthy looking model plane is Lockheed Martin’s concept for what anext-generation super shot take-off and landing tactical airlifter would look like. The four-engine plane (though I only see two in these pictures), called the Speed Agile Concept Demonstrator, is Lockheed’s [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/09/15/lockheeds-new-stol-airlifter-design/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>35</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Los Alamos Has Its Faults</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/03/31/los-alamos-has-its-faults/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/03/31/los-alamos-has-its-faults/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:23:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nukes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Old Skool]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=12156</guid> <description><![CDATA[J. Robert Oppenheimer was doubtless a smart guy, given his critical role in developing the Atomic Bomb. But it turns out the place he selected to design and build the bomb – now grown into the major Los Alamos National Laboratory – is over a fault line. That piece of info was dropped almost in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/03/31/los-alamos-has-its-faults/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Navy One Step Closer to Using Lasers for Ship Defense</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/01/21/navy-one-step-closer-to-using-lasers-for-ship-defense/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/01/21/navy-one-step-closer-to-using-lasers-for-ship-defense/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:11:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lasers and Ray Guns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sea Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ships and Subs]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=11154</guid> <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy is one step closer to developing a ship-mounted laser capable of defending against everything from swarms of speedboats to anti-ship missiles. After more than two decades of research, scientists at Los Alamos National Lab last month demonstrated the technology, known as a Free Electron Laser, needed to generate a one megawatt beam that could [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/01/21/navy-one-step-closer-to-using-lasers-for-ship-defense/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>83</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nuke Scarecrow Put Out to Pasture</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2007/01/04/nuke-scarecrow-put-out-to-pasture/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2007/01/04/nuke-scarecrow-put-out-to-pasture/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:22:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>hambling</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3343</guid> <description><![CDATA[Security at the nation’s nuclear weapons complex has been comically awful for years. 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The AP has this article on a drug raid at a New Mexico trailer park, which turned up classified documents from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Local police found the documents while arresting [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2006/10/25/los-alamos-getting-sloppy-updated/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dazed and Confused by RRW — Part 4</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/04/dazed-and-confused-by-rrw-part-4/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/04/dazed-and-confused-by-rrw-part-4/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:57:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>sharon_weinberger</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nukes]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2077</guid> <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the final post in my series on the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program and the future of U.S. nuclear stockpile stewardship. In this post, I’ll review where RRW stands today, and touch briefly on some of the political dimensions of the debate over the program. There’s a lot of material on this program [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/04/dazed-and-confused-by-rrw-part-4/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dazed and Confused by RRW — Part 3</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/03/dazed-and-confused-by-rrw-part-3/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/03/dazed-and-confused-by-rrw-part-3/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>sharon_weinberger</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nukes]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2072</guid> <description><![CDATA[In my last post, I discussed the origins of the Reliable Replacement Warhead program (RRW). In this post, I’ll look at one example of a change which is being made in the manufacturing of an essential nuclear component, and at what this change means for the debate over RRW. The component in question here is [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/03/dazed-and-confused-by-rrw-part-3/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>32</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Not So Divine After All?</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/02/not-so-divine-after-all/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/02/not-so-divine-after-all/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:11:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>sharon_weinberger</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Ammo and Munitions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos and Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nukes]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2068</guid> <description><![CDATA[Remember Divine Strake a.k.a. “strakes on a plain”? Well, forget it. At least for this year. Palm Springs KESQ reports that the planned massive explosion at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) has been put off till 2007, at the earliest. Divine Strake, recall, was supposed to consist of 700 tons many, many trucks worth of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2006/08/02/not-so-divine-after-all/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>19</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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