LOL. You don' have the technical expertise to make such a judgment, thankfully. The status quo is not an option. Eventually, you must replace the existing arsenal. I am not willing to take the gamble of having no functioning nuclear arsenal. We have spent much more than $100 billion in Iraq. Nuclear weapons are part of our strategic defense. Let the experts argue out the best way to achieve that, but no one is saying that we should maintain the status quo forever.
"The two teams competing to design the weapon, one at Los Alamos in New Mexico, the other at the Livermore National Laboratory in California, approached the problem with very different philosophies, nuclear officials and experts said. Livermore drew on a single, robust design that, before the testing moratorium, was detonated in the 1980s under a desolate patch of Nevada desert. The weapon, however, never entered the nation’s nuclear stockpile.
"Los Alamos team drew on aspects of many weapons from the stockpile and pulled them together in a novel design that has never undergone testing."
The winner of the competition was to have been announced in November. federal officials said they had a hard time choosing between the two designs, calling both excellent.