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Nuclear Modernization

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,…

Army

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Congress

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Army

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Congress

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