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Quality of U.S. Nuclear Devices Questioned

San Francisco Chronicle: The Project on Government Oversight says it was told by some Los Alamos scientists that a newly manufactured plutonium trigger used in the W88 warhead on top of the Trident ICBM needed 72 waivers from the specifications used for the original triggers, including 53 engineering-related changes.

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