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duct experiments and do research and development
workin the military application of atomic energy.”’
The fiscal year testing program receives authorization from the President. Each fiscal year, the
Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE), and the weapons laboratories (Law-
rence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos
National Laboratory) develop a nuclear testung
program. The Secretary of Energy proposes the
upcoming year’s program in letter to the President
through the National Security Council. The National
Security Council solicits comments on the test
program from its members and incorporates those