Forum… Or Against ’em

By Count Friedrich von Olsen
It looks like upgrades to the U.S. nuclear arsenal will be delayed further as the only laboratory our nation has for producing and testing the plutonium cores for nuclear weapons, which was shut down in 2013, will remain offline for at least the next several months. It was supposed to be up and running again by now, but efforts at modernization and safety enhancement have not been completed. It seems that over the years the protocol for the safe handling a disposition of plutonium – a deadly substance if there ever was one – has been violated. New procedures entailing new systems are to be put in place so that a mishap will not kill the workers there or spread nuclear contamination over central New Mexico and beyond…
In the meantime, there have been 29 and counting delays of planned tests of the reliability of our nuclear warheads to be used in a doomsday scenario if such should manifest. Let’s hope the responsible officials can pull everything they need together to take care of this rather alarming situation…

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