For over two decades, a compact, powerful warhead called the W-76 has been the centerpiece of the nation's nuclear arsenal, carried aboard the fleet of nuclear submarines that prowl the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But in recent months it has become the subject of a fierce debate among experts inside and outside the government over its reliability and its place in the nuclear arsenal. Questions also surround the weapon's basic design. Four knowledgeable critics, three former scientists and one current one at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which designed the W-76, have recently argued that the weapon is highly unreliable and, if not a complete dud, likely to explode with a force so reduced as to compromise its effectiveness.
Our weapons are old, perhaps even non-functional. We have had no strategic weapon development in decades. Russia and CIna spend their military $ on weapon R&D and procurement. The U.S. military $ goes toward pay, police action, and misc BS.
We have gone from a world power to a world power of bygone days.
We could easily change that...if someone were willing.
No sir we are still the top dog.. I'm sure there are a lot of stuff that is going on that we don't know about..