Pentagon Wants to Build 80 Plutonium Pits Per Year for Nuclear Weapons
Kris Osborn
By Kris Osborn - Warrior Maven
(Washington D.C.) It would appear clear that the Pentagon has no plans to abandon its nuclear weapons arsenal but rather likely expand it considerably along with its massive ongoing modernization campaign to deliver new ICBMs, stealth bombers, low-yield weapons, nuclear hypersonic missiles and new air-dropped nuclear-bomb variants.
A vigorous nuclear weapons program has of course been underway in recent years, to include rapid progress with the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent new ICBM program, continued upgrades and testing of the Minuteman III weapons, the engineering of new low-yield nuclear warheads for the submarine-launched Trident II D5 nuclear missile, construction of a Long-Range Stand Off weapon nuclear-armed cruise missiles and a new integrated B-61 air dropped bomb.
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