美国总统克林顿在今年2月批准一项激光技术发展规划,即建立国家热核反应受控装置(National Ignition Facility)。此设备建在加里福尼亚州的劳伦斯·利夫莫尔实验室,利用此设备重新启动小规模的热核受控核聚变实验。用此设备进行实验,而不允许激光武器物理学家在内华达州做大规模的核爆炸实验,将用有效的计算机模拟方法使美国核武器研究继续进行。 U.S. President Bill Clinton approved in February this year a laser technology development plan to establish a National Ignition Facility. Built at Lawrence Lifmore Laboratory in California, the device was used to restart small-scale, thermonuclear controlled nuclear fusion experiments. Experiments with this device, which do not allow laser weapon physicists to do large-scale nuclear explosion experiments in Nevada, will allow the United States to continue its nuclear weapons research with validated computer simulations.