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Livermore wins warhead design contest
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| 12 March 2007 |
By Andrew Koch JDW Contributing Strategic Editor
Washington, DC
A programme to develop a replacement for US submarine-based nuclear warheads has moved forward with the selection of a design produced by the country's leading nuclear weapons laboratories, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced on 2 March.
If the design progresses to completion, the development would mark the first new nuclear weapon introduced into the US atomic stockpile in decades.
A team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratory will lead this effort called the Reliable Replacement Warhead-1 (RRW-1) which the NNSA claims will allow for safer, more secure weapons, while also providing greater reliability that could enable further reductions in Washington's nuclear weapon holdings.
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