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by jessriedel 5079 days ago
> They'll spend at least $5 billion on the project.

That's stretched well over a decade. The US's stockpile stewardship program cost billions per year; only a fraction of it goes to the NIF.

> That is enough money to completely remanufacture the entire arsenal several times using existing designs that are good enough.

That's not an option. The US has been sticking to a policy of not building new nuclear warheads. All of our warheads are at least 20 years old.