U.S. Begins to Replace Aging Nuclear Weapons

Posted on July 8, 2006 | Leave a comment

I heard this, and you can listen to it, on yesterday’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday on NPR.

Talk of the Nation, July 7, 2006 · The U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile is aging and, according to the government, the older weapons are ready to be retired. New weapons are in the planning stages, but bans on certain forms of weapons testing leave weapons scientists with a challenge: is it possible to build a nuclear bomb and be so certain it will work that physical tests will never be necessary? Guests discuss the next generation of nuclear weapons.

Guests:

  • Geoff Brumfiel, physical sciences correspondent; Nature magazine
  • Robert W. Nelson, senior scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, visiting member of the research staff, Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University
  • Ambassador C. Paul Robinson, chief negotiator and head of the U.S. delegation to the U.S./U.S.S.R. nuclear testing talks in Geneva; former director of Sandia National Laboratories

    What happened to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons? So much for disarmament.

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