Weapons Knowledge Preservation & Transfer Program (WKPT)

This one and a half day course will focus on the nuclear weapons surveillance program; including Why we do surveillance, the interactions with other agencies, the basics of the surveillance program, and NW reliability and the Annual Assessment Process.

Description: The unclassified Weapons Surveillance (WS) Module is designed to familiarize participants with the importance and application of nuclear weapons surveillance.  The online course is broken into 3 sections, each about 4 hours in length.

Each section will cover specific aspects of the surveillance program, including activities that the surveillance program supports, like reliability and annual assessment. 

The course will briefly cover the governing bodies and documents for the NW program before delving into an introduction to surveillance and the agencies involved. Then we will cover all aspects of the surveillance program before wrapping up with a tutorial on Anomaly Investigations. how reliability is calculated and the annual assessment process.  Differences in approaches for surveillance between the physics labs and SNL will be identified and discussed.