The National Nuclear Security Administration’s latest Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan, released Monday, fuzzed up delivery dates for distant, future nuclear weapons that, as recently as a year ago, had at least placeholder dates. Specially, three weapons, ground-, sea- and air-based warheads, now have “To Be Determined” first-production-unit delivery dates instead of the mid- to late-2030s dates penciled into the 2022 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan: an annual, unclassified National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) progress report that this year ranges nearly…
