Science & Technology Review, October/November 2015

24 cm, 24 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (most in color). Mailing label and mailing information on back cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is an American federal research facility in Livermore, California. A Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), it is primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and managed and operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. In 2012, the laboratory had the synthetic chemical element livermorium named after it. LLNL was established in 1952 as the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, an offshoot of the existing UC Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. It was intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, that developed the first atomic weapons. Edward Teller and Ernest Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as the co-founders of the Livermore facility. The Lab had four main programs: Project Sherwood (the Magnetic Fusion Program), Project Whitney (the weapons design program), diagnostic weapon experiments, and a basic physics program. UCRL-TR-52000-15-10/11. S&TR is a Director's Office publication produced by the Technical Information Department under the direction of the Office of Planning and Special Studies. This is a significant publication from one of the United States nuclear weapon design/physics laboratories. This issue focused on America's Space-Launch Industry. This includes a commentary by Anantha Krishnan and an article on Advancing Next-Generation Rockets and the Engines that Power Them. Additional articles discuss x-ray optics, microbial detection, bioidentification, and thermite research. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…