Chapter 2—The Nuclear Testing Program @ 23 Prato crear Deparment of Energy Interior Tunnel duct experiments and do research and development work in the military application of atomic energy.” rence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory) develop a nuclear testing The fiscal year testing program receives authori- program. The Secretary of Energy proposes the upcoming year’s program in letter to the President ergy (DOE), and the weapons laboratories (Law- Security Council solicits comments on the test program from its members and incorporates those zation from the President. Each fiscal year, the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of En- through the National Security Council. The National