December 01, 2006

JASON Diminishes the Case for New Nuclear Weapons

...an unclassified summary of a JASON review of plutonium aging in nuclear weapons... found that most plutonium weapon "pits" have "credible lifetimes of at least 100 years." This important conclusion diminishes the case for any new nuclear weapon development.

See the unclassified executive summary (pdf) of the JASON report on "Pit Lifetime" (flagged by ArmsControlWonk.com).

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Spitting Image search plutonium pits

Posted by Stubbornson at December 1, 2006 08:05 AM