After a tortuous, nearly two-year review, punctuated by Washington's budget spasms and political fights, U.S. nuclear and rocket scientists have a bold, new strategy for downsizing and upgrading the nation's nuclear warhead arsenal. The 25-year strategy, called "three-plus-two," is the best plan they could come up with and agree upon across the whole Nuclear Weapons Council bureaucracy, from National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories to U.S. Strategic Command (StratCom) bunkers. Indeed, officials have never been more confident in the supercomputing and human expertise at hand to carry it off.
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