The latest issue of the US Lawrence Livermore laboratory's glossy journal Energy and Technology Review is dedicated completely to the lab's work on
dismantling nuclear warheads.
While Russia presses on with
dismantling its nuclear warheads, the Pentagon is tying itself up in knots over how best to verify that its old rival is getting rid of as many as it says it is.
Now whenever workers at Pantex
dismantle a nuclear warhead, the pit is sealed in a steel container and stacked in earthcovered bunkers on - site.
Not exact matches
The delicate, potentially deadly
dismantling of
nuclear warheads at Pantex, while little noticed, has grown increasingly urgent to keep the United States from exceeding a limit of 1,550
warheads permitted under a 2010 treaty with Russia.
The remainder of the fuel comes from government stockpiles and
dismantled Russian
nuclear warheads.