Chapter 2—The Nuclear Testing Program © 23 Photo credit Departmen ot Ecergy interior Tunnel 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