The Los Alamos/Arzamas-16 collaboration on ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahigh energy pulsed power

The end of the Cold War has made possible some joint scientific research projects between scientific institutions of the United States and the Russian Federation. Perhaps most unprecedented of the new partnerships is a formal collaboration which has been established between the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the two institutes which designed the first nuclear weapons for their respective countries. In early 1992, emerging governmental policy in the US and Russia began to encourage "lab-to-lab" interactions between the nuclear weapons design laboratories of the two countries. The authors discuss the collaborative work in the areas of magnetic flux compression generators, high current experiments, high magnetic field application, and progress towards controlled thermonuclear fusion.