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Nuclear Modernization

NNSA Releases ‘Blueprint’ For Nuclear Weapons Production In Post-New-START World With A Rising China

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

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NNSA Releases ‘Blueprint’ For Nuclear Weapons Production In Post-New-START World With A Rising China

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Tuesday published a vision for the U.S. nuclear-weapons production complex that could exist in the decades when the last nuclear-arms-control treaty lapses and China finishes a major military modernization. The fruit of a year of work, the 40-page Enterprise Blueprint published Tuesday, and provided to Defense Daily affiliate Exchange Monitor under embargo by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), covers the 25 years spanning 2025 to 2050. In February 2026, the New START…

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