You are spot on. The Minuteman III systems are long in the tooth. The Trident D5 systems on the Ohio-class missile boats are much younger but the boats are getting old. The actual warheads need to be redesigned eventually also as they are getting long in the tooth. All of these systems have a finite life span.
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It is NOT just about the number of nukes we have it is about the very old technology that drives it . Some of our delivery / launch systems are reliant on floppy discs to launch them .
Many of our bunkers are rusting into poor condition . Sixty -Minutes covered these issues within the past year . In fact there is a particular wrench that is necessary to tighten certain parts on
a particular type of launch vehicle that is in such short supply that the crews have to send it from one to another via Fed-Ex .
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