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New ICBM Warhead Will Lose Some Features to Pay for Overruns on Other Nukes

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

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The Department of Energy plans to partially defray cost overruns on two nuclear-weapon refurbishments by stripping features out of the planned warhead for the next land-based, intercontinental ballistic missile, a senior agency official said Thursday. The features to be cut, however, are not mission-essential requirements for the planned W87-1 — more like features that are good to build into the warhead “if you can,” but ultimately “within the tradespace” of things that could be comfortably omitted from the weapon’s design,…

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