There is a program to refurbish the aging U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. But many experts argue that the reliability of renovated warheads is unknown without testing. Russia faces the same problem. The nuclear test ban treaty forbids testing. Under Bush (43) the plan was to create a new generation of warheads which could be tested by computer model but some scientists argued the results would be questionable.
The problem with refurbishing old warheads is that the tooling for building the warheads no longer exists so the reliability of the refurbished product is unknown.
Thanks for the comments and the link.
We face a tough world out there, and other nations are pursuing their own updates to their arsenals. Russia is. China is. North Korea is. Iran is. We’ve go them at all stages of the readiness spectrum.
We are therefore confronted with the reality that we must do so also.
My expression of this is not intended to infer that you don’t agree. You very well may.
We are still susceptible to the starry eyed nincompoop in the White House, and whether they will eviscerate us or not.