Dr. Peter Pry: Our nuclear deterrent is going obsolete on all levels
Dr. Pry dissects the recent statements made by the new Commander of the US Strategic Command, Admiral Charles Richard, regarding the condition of our deterrent and the industrial base that supports it on Secure Freedom Radio.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, joins Secure Freedom Radio to discuss the state of our nuclear deterrent.
Dr. Pry dissects the recent statements made by the new Commander of the US Strategic Command, Admiral Charles Richard, regarding the condition of our deterrent and the industrial base that supports it.
“Admiral Richard’s testimony came not long after an article I had published, America Racing Toward Nuclear Obsolescence, and he and I are obviously like-minded regarding the fact that the nuclear deterrent is the most important part of our posture because it overshadows everything and is the ultimate guarantor of peace in the world, and it’s going obsolete on all levels. Most everyone knows the delivery systems including the bombers, the missiles on submarines, the ICBMS, are old and are antiques from the Cold War. We have plans to replace them but it is going to take many years before they are replaced. Fewer people know that the nuclear weapons themselves are also antiques and obsolete. What the Admiral means by the nuclear enterprise beyond the nuclear weapons are the scientific laboratories and their defense industries which used to exist and would manufacture things like enriched uranium, plutonium, all these things that are indispensable to making nuclear weapons. Even then, they’re not only obsolete, but really no longer existent. For example, in this country we don’t have the capability to make plutonium pits anywhere. These pits are indispensable to making a nuclear weapon, they are the trigger for making a nuclear weapon. By the year 2030- ten years from now- the US plans to be able to make 80 plutonium pits per year. Russia, since they never shut down their nuclear enterprise, can currently make 4,000 plutonium pits per year. That is to show you how bad and stark this situation is.”
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