As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting safety corners, bypassing fiscal oversight, and risking nuclear instability—all to fix a problem that elite scientists say doesn't exist.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72750552

As the US nuclear weapons program charges from the gates, the idea of restraint may seem far-fetched. In reality, this apparently unbounded acceleration is a choice rather than a necessity. New pit production is not yet required for the existing US nuclear arsenal, only for its expansion or replacement with new designs.

With everything else going on it is easy to forget that we are also genuinely speedrunning the nuclear war collapse arc simultaneously too.