LMJ | CNIM 1996: France ceases nuclear testing and launches the Laser Mégajoule project (LMJ). Aim: to extend the life of its nuclear deterrent by simulating explosions of nuclear weapons. An exceptional project in which the CNIM Group has been involved since 1999 with the manufacture of high-precision mechanical and optical devices. A key installation in the Simulation program, the LMJ makes it possible to study on a highly-reduced scale the behavior of materials under similar conditions to those experienced when a nuclear weapon explodes. After it had taken part in the LMJ preparatory program, in 2003 CEA/DAM (Military Applications Directorate of France’s Atomic and Alternative Energy Authority) awarded the Group a contract for Test Chamber Equipment and Integration (ECI), then i

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