Livermore Atomic Laboratory across the bay has enough plutonium for 80 bombs.
The Livermore laboratory once pioneered nuclear arms but increasingly studies biology and germ defenses.
He remains a consultant to the Livermore Laboratory.
The Livermore Laboratory is actively monitoring the status of this California endemic.
At the time Dr. Teller was director emeritus of the Livermore laboratory.
This device would implode little thermonuclear fuel capsules like those the Livermore laboratory is developing, but without lasers.
"Significant advances in science typically result from small projects - not large ones," said Dr. Chapline of the Livermore laboratory.
Dr. Hagelstein said he originally joined the Livermore laboratory, a leading site for laser research, without realizing that nuclear weapon work was also done there.
"Some are peanut-sized," said Dr. Fiske of the Livermore laboratory.