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Why it would be a bad idea for the Trump administration to conduct a “rapid” nuclear test

By Sulgiye Park, Jennifer Knox, Dylan Spaulding | Nuclear Weapons

The troubled Mixed-oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River Site is proposed to be transformed into a plutonium pit production facility. Photo (c) Timothy Mousseau, 2019.

Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed

By Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons