An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the U.S. Navy's Ohio-class fleet ballistic-missile submarine USS Nevada (SSBN 733) off the coast of Southern California in March 2011. (U.S. Navy)
Nuke Expert Pool Shrinking -- Defense News
Drop in Weapons Testing Raises Safety Concerns in U.S.
In about five years, every scientist with experience designing and testing nuclear weapons will have retired from the U.S. government.
Thomas D’Agostino, the undersecretary for nuclear security and the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said the number of nuclear scientists with weapons testing experience is somewhere in the mid- to low teens.
The definition he uses for test experience is “someone who’s had a key hand in the design of a warhead that’s in the existing stockpile and who was responsible for that particular design when it was tested back in the early 1990s.”
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My Comment: America's expertise on nuclear weapons is not the only thing that is being questioned.
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