And DOE Secretary Federico Peña testified the following year, "Experiments at the NIF will test the simulation codes developed under the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (now known as Advanced Simulation and Computing program) and demonstrate how aged or changed materials in weapons could behave under the unique conditions of nuclear weapons detonation.

He also contended that because the Israelis, for fear of detection, could not test nuclear weapons they might have, powerful computers were essential to simulate weapons detonations accurately and quickly.

Energy bursts might arise from nuclear weapons detonation, but if war does break out on Talin, then we shall be under no constraints to maintain low-level power settings for the transporter.

"It wasn't a weapons detonation, was it?"

"The sounds indeed can be identified, with more than ninety percent certainty, as weapons detonation."

In the early 1960's, the United States and the Soviet Union first recognized the potentially destructive effects of the electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, emitted by nuclear weapons detonations.

Although the situation on the street remained chaotic, the size of the protesting crowds had diminished considerably throughout the long night, undoubtedly because of the high death toll--among both the joined and the unjoined--in the immediate vicinity of the neurogenic weapons detonations.

"Are they weapons detonations?"

Where the integrated circuitry had to be retained, the compartments housing the microchips were hardened by layers of ceramic materials specially developed to absorb the electromagnetic and ionizing radiation produced by nuclear weapons detonation.