Octobre 2006 / Washington Post

U.S. Plans for New Nuclear Weapons Advances

U.S. Plan for New Nuclear Weapons Advances

By Walter Pincus

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, October 20, 2006 ; A11

The United States took another step yesterday toward

building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed

nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st

century, announcing the start of a multiyear process

to repair and replace facilities where they would be

developed and assembled and where older warheads could

be more rapidly dismantled.

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