Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, Los Alamos) is a research and development institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. It serves as a nuclear weapons design agency and a nuclear weapons production agency that addresses nuclear threats and performs national security science, technology, and engineering. The institution also serves as a center for research in a range of scientific disciplines, including space exploration, geophysics, renewable energy, supercomputing, medicine, and nanotechnology.