Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Swell
Isn't it nice to know that the U.S. is on the cutting edge of the development of new nukes?
The NYT reports that America's first new nuclear warhead in over twenty years will likely end up a sort of Frankenbomb hybrid of two competing designs. Instead of choosing between designs submitted by teams at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Reliable Replacement Warhead (TP loves the name) will fuse elements of both designs, an approach that some believe is as likely to result in a dud as a functional weapon. "It's one thing to have all the components working and another to have them all working together," said one Berkeley scientist.
Sounds like it's being accomplished with the same level of competence as everything else out of the Pentagon .....
Written at 9:19 AM by Greyhair.
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