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John Nuckolls

Lead nuclear designer at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, proposed Ripple concept / Physicist / Nuclear weapons designer / Physicist, former LLNL Director, 'Father of Inertial Confinement Fusion'

Appearances (5)

Lead nuclear designer at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, proposed Ripple concept

2024 Enrico Fermi Award winner; designed Ripple tests (Pam Leico, Ripple 2, Ripple 3)

The 1960s Project That Broke Physics
Physicist

Pioneer of inertial confinement fusion.

Aliens and Nukes
Physicist

Credited with setting up the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

They Solved Fusion in 2016. Nobody Noticed.
Nuclear weapons designer

Developed clean H-bombs using geometric compression; founded National Ignition Facility; proposed testing GR with thermonuclear weapons (1974)

Jason Jorjani – Civilization-Breaking Technology, Fusion Weapons, and Space-Time Distortion
Physicist, former LLNL Director, 'Father of Inertial Confinement Fusion'

2024 Enrico Fermi Award recipient; developed ICF, contributed to EUV lithography and NIF

The Man Who Engineered the Future