Just briefly, last year at this time the organization was in a state of flux. I now have in place a full organization, with three deputy assistant secretaries-one for military application, General Hoover, who is here with me: one for nuclear materials, Dr. Gilbert, who is seated next to General Hoover; and one for security affairs, Jim Culpepper, who is seated next. We do now have, I think, a good organization. It is functioning well. I will summarize our budget request for fiscal year 1983, including the amendment which has been submitted and is here along with the initial budget. I won't go through the figures in detail. The weapons activities request is about $3.5 billion; verification and control a little over $50 million; materials production about $1.3 billion; defense nuclear waste about $0.5 billion; nuclear materials security and safeguards about $48 million; security investigations about $28 million. The total for my programs is $5,395,900,000. Naval reactors, of course, is not my responsibility, but it is included in the defense activities budget request. [Deleted.] [Deleted.] WEAPONS PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES Chairman HATFIELD. Excuse me, Mr. Roser, could I interrupt? Do you have everyone identified on that side of the room? Mr. ROSER. Yes; we have verified the clearances. Chairman HATFIELD. Thank you. I just wanted to make sure. [Deleted.] WEAPONS IN PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Mr. ROSER. These are the systems that we are producing. [Chart deleted.] We have two tactical bombs, the B61-3 and 4: a version of the Lance missile warhead: the Trident warhead, the Minuteman III warhead, and the 8-inch artillery-fired atomic projectile. [Deleted] [Chart deleted] TESTING Just briefly, this is the history of our test program. [Deleted] I hope that in the future we can better describe our testing effort in terms of the data we are able to get and what diagnostics we are able to do, rather than necessarily speak to the number of tests. [Deleted] DEFENSE PROGRAMS OBJECTIVES R&D TO DETERMINE FEASIBILITY OF RELEASE OF SIGNIFICANT THERMONUCLEAR ENERGY FROM SMALL FUEL PELLETS HEATED BY LASERS OR PARTICLE BEAMS • USE THIS ENERGY FOR WEAPON PHYSICS STUDIES, WEAPON EFFECTS SIMULATION • DETERMINE ITS POTENTIAL USE AS AN ENERGY SOURCE IF HIGH GAINS PROVE TO BE FEASIBLE CHART 115 INERTIAL FUSION The inertial fusion program is principally for using laser or particle beams on fuel pellets to do weapons physics studies. That is the thrust of the program. We are directing the program toward weapons physics effects and weapons effects simulations. As we proceed in that program, and if it is as successful as we believe it will be, then in the future we will be able to determine if it really has potential as an energy source in the future. [Deleted.] Senator JOHNSTON. What did the reporter for the New Yorker assume on megatonnage? Mr. ROSER. I don't recall the exact figure, Senator Johnston, but those are the facts. [Deleted.] |