Is Pentagon Lying About Plutonium Pits ???

According to this report, the Pentagon says they need to produce new plutonium pits for "our" nuclear weapons:

http://www.newsweek.com/us-nukes-will-be-useless-without-more-plutonium-military-warns-857441

But are they telling us the truth?

Here is a detailed discussion on the subject from the Los Alamos Study Group, which contains this important information:

The U.S. has about 23,000 pits, of which about 10,000 are in weapons and roughly 13,000 are in storage at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo , TX .

Nearly all the pits in the stockpile were made between 1978 and 1989. No one knows how long pits will ultimately last, but weapons experts and congressional studies have said that pits will last at least 60 years. No signs of degradation or any upper limit on working age have been found. All deployed pits will thus last through 2038 at a minimum. Through accelerated aging experiments, NNSA is gathering an additional 14-16 years of pit “longevity” data each year, raising serious questions about the rush to spend billions of dollars on a new pit production factory.

At LANL, pit production is being established to build W88 pits, an existing type used in warheads for Trident submarine missiles. NNSA now plans to curtail W88 production in favor of a new type of pit, called the “Reliable Replacement Warhead” (RRW), which is to be the prototype of a family of new (and untested) warheads meant to replace all existing U.S. warheads.

You can read the rest @
http://www.lasg.org/campaigns/PUPitProd.htm

So ... the issue is not the longevity of the pits, it's the desire of Trump and the Pentagon to produce NEW nuclear weapons which are more "usable" and more devastating.

My two cents ... DO NOT waste money on this abomination. We SHOULD NOT enable and embolden the US government to EVER use nuclear weapons again.