Тред №358343

Уважаемый Dancomm, пока Вы здесь, не могли бы Вы прокомментировать этот мощный опус (вообще-то он не о ядерных делах, а о том, что Пентагону пора перестать притворяться, что оборонный комплекс работает по законам свободного рынка, а то доиграются, а это просто один из примеров):

Moreover, there are areas in which the U.S. industrial base has already lost certain capabilities. Almost all the hands-on work relating to nuclear weapons development, from initial design to final assembly, is done by private contractors. After the Cold War ended Congress began cutting funds for the U.S. nuclear stockpile and the Department of Energy gave priority to preserving the design capabilities at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore at the expense of the production plants. The consequences of these decisions are now clear. Of the three nuclear materials found in modern U.S. weapons—uranium, plutonium, and tritium—the United States currently has only a limited capability to manufactureuranium and tritium, and the small plutonium capability at Los Alamos would be inadequate if the need arose to replace hundreds of plutonium pits in a short period of time. The United States “differs from all other nuclear powers in that we are the only one that does not regularly remanufacture and replace our weapons”;all other nuclear powers “believe that the maximum shelf life of a nuclear explosive is in the range of ten to fifteen years.” Together, therefore, these two examples suggest that a coherent, long-term strategy for sustaining the vital elements of U.S. defense industrial base is no longer something that can be safely deferred or avoided.

www.csbaonline.org/p…rial-base/

То, что США практически утратили способность производить ядерные заряды, я встречал и раньше, но это были всякие форумные параноики, а также не менее параноидный Weekly Standard, а это немного более взвешенный документ.