I doubt that ours and Russia's thermonuclear bombs are operational. The Key element are plutonium pits, bowling ball sized, hollow spheres of plutonium, they degrade over time, and were last manufactured, in America, in 1989.
There was an alarm, after Putin waved his nuclear phallus, because, as as a result of the end of the cold war, we …
I doubt that ours and Russia's thermonuclear bombs are operational. The Key element are plutonium pits, bowling ball sized, hollow spheres of plutonium, they degrade over time, and were last manufactured, in America, in 1989.
There was an alarm, after Putin waved his nuclear phallus, because, as as a result of the end of the cold war, we have lost the technology and equipment to rebuild these plutonium pits, and those that are on missiles need to be replaced
The Lawrence Livermore Lab in California's central valley, has been tasked with reinventing the process.
Russia is in worse shape, because of funding and corruption within the officer corps.
The end of the cold war provided the Russian military leadership with a bonus. Russia has always been corrupt, but with no cold war, the generals and admirals had every motivation for siphoning off maintenance funds, especially for their missiles and nuclear arsenal, and they had no over riding motivation to maintain production of plutonium pits.
I doubt that ours and Russia's thermonuclear bombs are operational. The Key element are plutonium pits, bowling ball sized, hollow spheres of plutonium, they degrade over time, and were last manufactured, in America, in 1989.
There was an alarm, after Putin waved his nuclear phallus, because, as as a result of the end of the cold war, we have lost the technology and equipment to rebuild these plutonium pits, and those that are on missiles need to be replaced
The Lawrence Livermore Lab in California's central valley, has been tasked with reinventing the process.
Russia is in worse shape, because of funding and corruption within the officer corps.
The end of the cold war provided the Russian military leadership with a bonus. Russia has always been corrupt, but with no cold war, the generals and admirals had every motivation for siphoning off maintenance funds, especially for their missiles and nuclear arsenal, and they had no over riding motivation to maintain production of plutonium pits.
For those interested and doubt me try this pdf. https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-u-s-plutonium-pit-production/
Also google plutonium pits.