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Los Alamos ScienceFest Kickoffs At Fuller Lodge With Hill Stompers This Evening Los Alamos ScienceFest 2021: Driven By Science kicks off this evening at Fuller Lodge. The Hill Stompers will start things off as part of the Tuesdays at the Pond series (today held at Fuller Lodge), then hear a science Q&A led by local high school sophomore Hana Raby, as she talks with three local scientists, Roger Wiens and Juston Moore of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Hunter McDaniel of UbiQD. The Hill Sto...

For them to be doing this kind of test? >> they normally dont test in the fourth quarter of the year. of the 85 tests they have done since 2011, only five have been in the last quarter. people think that this has to do with weather conditions. sometimes the troops move from military duty to harvesting for whatever reason we dont test this year and the pause that weve seen, the 74 days since the last missile test partly is explained by the time of year it might not have been a gesture. the u.s. s...

That. this is a very serious step forward. it went a little over 4,000 miles. the second was the end of july. this is an 8,000 mile missile. this is about the range of our missiles, our minute men in north dakota and montana and other places. the good news is we dont know if it can actually carry a nuclear war head yet. it might have been a light payload on this test, a nuclear war head weighs a ton. can it carry a ton all the way? can it with stand the stresses and striains of reentry. these ar...