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Senior Pentagon Official Likes NNSA Warhead-Core Approach, Frustrated by Production Status

Friday, September 21st, 2018

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Senior Pentagon Official Likes NNSA Warhead-Core Approach, Frustrated by Production Status

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It would make sense for the Department of Energy to have more than one production facility for the fissile cores of nuclear warheads, a senior Pentagon official with broad responsibility for nuclear weapons procurement said Friday.“To me, it doesn’t quite make sense to go down to a single point of failure anywhere,” Peter Fanta, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear matters, said at the Capitol Hill Club during a breakfast presentation hosted by the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute…

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