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Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship
Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing. Because no new nuclear weapons have been developed by the United States since 1992, even its youngest weapons are at least years old (as of ). Aging weapons can fail or act unpredictably in a number of ways: the high explosives that compress their fissile material can chemically degrade, their electronic components can suffer from decay, their radioactive plutonium/uranium cores are potentially unreliable, and the isotopes used by thermonuclear weapons may be chemically unstable as well. Since the United States has also not tested nuclear weapons since 1992, this leaves the task of its stockpile maintenance resting on the use of simulations (using non-nuclear explosives tests and supercomputers, among other methods) and applications of scientific knowledge about physics and chemistry to the specific problems of weapons aging (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peacekeeper Stockpile Stewardship
Peacekeeper may refer to: General * A person involved in peacekeeping ** United Nations peacekeeping * Peace officer * Conservator of the peace Military * The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, a land-based nuclear ICBM ** Peacekeeper Rail Garrison, a mobile missile system for the LGM-118 Peacekeeper * Cadillac Gage Ranger, armored fighting vehicles ** Cadillac Gage Peacekeeper II, one of the two models of the vehicle Fiction * ''The Peacekeepers'', a 1988 ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' novel by Gene DeWeese * ''The Peacekeeper'', a 1997 Canadian and American action film * Peacekeepers (Farscape), Peacekeepers (''Farscape''), a fictional military and law enforcement organization in ''Farscape'' * Peacekeepers (The Hunger Games), Peacekeepers (''The Hunger Games''), the combined military and police force in Panem in ''The Hunger Games'' * Peacekeeper (NCIS), "Peacekeeper" (''NCIS''), a 2021 television episode * ''Peacekeepers'', a 1988 science fiction novel by Ben Bova bibliography, Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
