The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Lab’s Weapons Program—stories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
National Security Science Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Brenda Fleming, J. Weston Phippen, Whitney Spivey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Podcast Overview
The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Lab’s Weapons Program—stories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
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May 30, 2026
Los Alamos researcher helps teen achieve fusion record; remembering Harold Agnew
Most eight-year-olds build things out of Legos. Aidan McMillan decided to build a nuclear fusion device—under the supervision of watchful adults. Four years later, his homemade fusor began producing neutrons—the signature of fusion—there was only one problem: proving it. For that, he turned to Los Alamos National Laboratory. To learn more, tune in to this episode of the National Security Science Podcast. Plus, you'll also hear from the Laboratory's legendary former director, Harold Agnew.
February 19, 2026
Learn to use a glovebox at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Want to spend some time in someone else’s gloves? Tune in to the National Security Science podcast to hear a magazine writer get (literal) hands-on experience as a glovebox worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Gloveboxes are sealed, steel compartments with gloves attached to their openings. Technicians insert their hands into the gloves to carry out a wide variety of processes involving radioactive materials, including the making of plutonium pits, the cores of nuclear weapons. In this episode you can also test your Los Alamos National Laboratory knowledge with questions from the television gameshow Jeopardy. It’s all part of National Security Science magazine’s “Knowledge” issue, available in print and online at https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/national-security-science.
February 18, 2026
Rocket launch at Spaceport tests new Los Alamos technology
Join Los Alamos National Laboratory for an audio field trip to a suborbital rocket launch. The flight took place in November 2025 in conjunction with commercial partner UP Aerospace, conducted the launch at Spaceport America. The goal was to test the performance of a new re-entry vehicle featuring a deployable aeroshell built by another commercial partner, Redwire Space, with assistance from the NASA Ames Research Center, which develops the technologies, simulations, and scientific foundations that make NASA missions possible.
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