ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. multidisciplinary research and engineering laboratory focused on national security, with major strengths in nuclear science, advanced materials, high-performance computing, energy technologies, and complex engineering systems. Its scientists and engineers develop technologies spanning microelectronics, cybersecurity, renewable energy, computational science, and extreme-environment research to strengthen security, resilience, and scientific understanding.
A rocket-propelled semitrailer carrying mock nuclear-weapon cargo has smashed into a barrier in New Mexico, completing Sandia National Laboratories’ full-scale crash-test series for a new secure transporter. The decisive evidence is now in the data, which have not been publicly released.