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US to build new nuclear gravity bomb
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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Right. The ~3k nukes the US has are too expensive to maintain, let's make more.
Sounds like the US.
If the maintenance and production of new ones is cheaper than maintaining the old ones, it makes sense to replace them. But then they’d have to actually replace/decommission the old ones.
Do you think it's cheaper to maintain stuff from 40 years ago, or to make something new?
Keep in mind you can't exactly go down to the nearest AutoZone to buy replacement parts either.