The audacity of IAEA, UN & the so called 'International Community': U.S. aims to up nuclear warhead production capability to 250 a year!!!

Japan Times
April 16, 2006

U.S. aims to up nuclear warhead production capability to 250 a year

Washington -- The United States envisions a plan to establish an annual production
capability of 250 nuclear warheads in a bid to be prepared for possible contingencies
in the future, a senior U.S. administration official said.

The plan also calls for promoting development of new types of warheads in a five-year
cycle to continuously replace existing ones, the National Nuclear Security Agency
(NNSA) official said on condition of anonymity.

The official also said the new type, called the reliable replacement warhead, or RRW,
which is now being studied for submarine-launched ballistic missiles in place of the
current W-76 warhead, could also be used for intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The move shows that the NNSA is contemplating twice the contingency production
capability more than what it has publicly stated.

In a congressional hearing early this month, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense
Programs Thomas D'Agostino said the agency plans a "baseline production capacity of
125 (plutonium) pits per year to the stockpile by 2022".

The five-year development cycle means the administration will continue to develop new
types of RRW after it successfully produces the one for replacing the W-76 warhead.

The NNSA official said, "Every five years we would go through a cycle . . . research,
development, production, retirement, dismantlement".

The Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are
expected to "establish technical feasibility" of developing the RRW without the
resumption of nuclear tests, he said.
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http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/140937386316666f

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http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9beb7da2199c39b2


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