Crews maintaining 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles had to share single wrench
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| US Nuclear Weapon Locations |
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will have to spend billions of dollars over the next five years to make emergency fixes to its nuclear weapons infrastructure, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
will announce on Friday, after two separate Pentagon studies concluded
that there are “systemic problems across the nuclear enterprise,”
according to senior defense officials.
The
reports are a searing indictment of how the Air Force’s and Navy’s
aging nuclear weapons facilities, silos and submarine fleet have been
allowed to decay since the end of the Cold War. A broad review was begun
after academic cheating scandals and the dismissal of top officers for
misbehavior, but it uncovered far more serious problems.
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