While trying to decrease the number of U.S. nuclear warheads, the White House administration proposes making new nuclear warheads and is waiting on "an expected decision in December by the NNSA on a design for the new "Reliable Replacement Warhead" (RRW). The nation’s two nuclear weapons laboratories, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, are competing for the new warhead design. Before going ahead with any new warhead, however, the NNSA would have to get Congress’s approval to move into actual engineering development."

More information at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901863_pf.html.

New U.S. nuclear weapons development

This entry was originally published at Interconnectedness by Mikhail (Misha) Lomize