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Experts: Poor Warhead Monitoring, Not Aging, Threatens Stockpile

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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

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By George Lobsenz The nation's aging nuclear warheads can be safely maintained by life extension methods similar to those now used by the Energy Department, but the agency's warhead monitoring programs are becoming inadequate and the continued reliability of the nation's stockpile overall is threatened by a "lack of program stability, perceived lack of mission importance and degradation of the work environment" in the nuclear weapons complex, an expert panel said in a report released last week. The report by…

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