floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhy is the US ramping up production of plutonium ‘pits’ for nuclear weapons?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down15
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minus-squareTheTimeKnife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up56arrow-down1·11 months agoBecause we need to replace and maintain the ones we already have. People have been talking about doing this to our aging stockpile for decades. It makes sense to reduce our arsenal, but the nukes we do have need to be maintained for safety and reliability.
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·11 months agoThat sounds awfully legit. I hate to think that the government is doing exactly what they’ve said they’d do in a sensible timeframe. What is this nation coming to?
minus-squareSocsa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoPeople on the internet like to pretend that if the US just stopped making weapons then everyone else would also stop making weapons.
Because we need to replace and maintain the ones we already have. People have been talking about doing this to our aging stockpile for decades.
It makes sense to reduce our arsenal, but the nukes we do have need to be maintained for safety and reliability.
That sounds awfully legit.
I hate to think that the government is doing exactly what they’ve said they’d do in a sensible timeframe. What is this nation coming to?
People on the internet like to pretend that if the US just stopped making weapons then everyone else would also stop making weapons.