US supercomputer effort (in partnership with IBM) and overseeing the development of the National Ignition Facility, a three billion dollar construction project. During he last years of his tenure as director he experienced the challenges of the Chinese espionage program, the creation of the National Nuclear Security Administration, a new government agency to oversee the laboratory's work, and the beginning of the Department of Homeland Security. His last act as director was to organize the laboratory's 50th anniversary celebration in 2002. Director emeritus After his formal retirement he continued to represent the laboratory on a number of task forces and commissions. He served on the Defense Science Board, the board of Draper Laboratory, several National Academy of Sciences studies, and the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. In parallel he began to work on the history of the laboratory through many oral interviews with those who had contributed in the past. This effort eventually led to his publishing in 2018, The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Awards He was named a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the California Council on Science and Technology. He received the Roosevelt's Gold Medal Award for Science, the National Nuclear Security Administration Gold Medal, and the Secretary of Energy's Gold Award. References Inertial Fusion and High-Energy-Density Science in the United States, C. B. Tarter, Proceedings of the Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2001, edited by K.A. Tanaka, D.D. Meyerhofer, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, — Elsevier, 9-16, (2002). The United States Nuclear Weapons Program: The Role of the Reliable Replacement Warhead, B. Tarter, P. Coyle, AAAS, April, 2007. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July–August 2007. Interview and article on Bruce Tarter. Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, W.J. Perry, J. R. Schlesinger, B. Tarter, USIP Press, 2009. Brief Reflections on Edward Teller's Scientific Life at Livermore, in Edward Teller Centennial Symposium: Modern Physics and the Scientific Legacy of Edward Teller edited by S. B. Libby and K. A. van Bibber. World Scientific, 1-3 (2010). The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Technical Issues for the United States. 2012. National Research Council, Washington, DCV. The National Academies Press. The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, C. B. Tarter, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2018. Living people 1939 births American physicists Theoretical