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ALTERNATIVE: Curatorship
published Tuesday, February 17, 2009  5505 Views :: 1 Comments
What happens to the U.S. arsenal if we don’t do life extensions? Practically speaking, essentially nothing. DOE has never identified an uncorrectable aging issue in the nuclear arsenal that would compromise the ability of weapons to “function as designed.” Eventually, surveillance may discover an aging anomaly that would call a warhead ’s reliability into question. By then, the U.S. should be retiring warheads as it meets its obligations under the Nonproliferation Treaty. In contrast, DOE asserts the only viable alternative to life extension for current warheads is building new bombs—the Reliable Replacement Warheads. Whether by LEP or the RRW program, planning for maintenance of a modernized nuclear arsenal for many decades to come is contrary to our Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) disarmament obligation.

-From ANA's 2008 DC Days Fact Sheet


 



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