U.S. Needs New Nukes

I guess I hadn't really thought much about our nuclear arsenal. I assumed we had plenty to destroy the world or destroy any countries we needed to. But General Kevin Chilton is sounding the alarm that we need to upgrade and modernize...and do it fast. He compares our current program to a 1957 Chevy, which was a great car in it's day, but nothing like what you can buy in today's showroom.

Here is a paragraph from the article that hilights the General's concern;

Gen. Chilton pulls out a prop to illustrate his point: a glass bulb about two inches high. "This is a component of a V-61" nuclear warhead, he says. It was in "one of our gravity weapons" -- a weapon from the 1950s and '60s that is still in the U.S. arsenal. He pauses to look around the Journal's conference table. "I remember what these things were for. I bet you don't. It's a vacuum tube. My father used to take these out of the television set in the 1950s and '60s down to the local supermarket to test them and replace them."

It does seem a little surreal that we have thousands of warheads that could destroy us and the entire world...and they have 60 year old light bulbs involved in their detonation system. Just one other thing that the U.S. is going to have to spend $$ Billions on upgrading...and we will need to borrow that money from someone as well.

Read full WSJ article here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122731227702749413.html