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<span style="font-size: 24pt; ">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 24pt; ">Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy Seminar Series<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">“</span><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Simulations, Testing, and Reliability in the Second Nuclear Age”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Hugh Gusterson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Professor, Cultural Studies and Anthropology</span><span style="font-size: 90pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">George Mason University</span><span style="font-size: 80pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; ">MIT Dept. of Nuclear Science & Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; ">Thursday April 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; ">Room 24-213<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; ">12:30 – 2:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; ">Refreshments 12:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Based on interviews with cabinet officers, Congressional aides and senior officials from the nuclear weapons complex, this talk reconstructs the decision taken in the 1990s to end nuclear
weapons testing. Under pressure in the international and domestic political arenas after the end of the cold war, the Clinton Administration overruled protests from the nuclear weapons labs that continued testing was needed to assure weapons reliability and
safety. However, the nuclear weapons complex was given a budget increase to replace testing with a set of simulation technologies, including a new generation of lasers and supercomputers. But the question remains: can we be sure the nuclear stockpile is
safe and reliable? How do we know?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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