New Fastest Supercomputer Will Simulate Nuke Testing
In July 1945, The Manhattan Project culminated in a successful nuclear weapons test near Los Alamos, New Mexico. But the United States committed to stop nuclear weapons testing in a 1965 treaty. The Manhattan Project’s progeny, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), is constrained to testing its nukes in simulation only. So instead of projecting U.S. strength through a massive explosion, yesterday the NNSA did so by unveiling the world’s most massive supercomputer.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/supercomputer-for-nukes
Seonglae Cho
