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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Fiscal Austerity Will Force Restraint On LEPS
Former NNSA Chief: Fiscal Austerity Will Force Restraint On LEPS
Weapons Complex Monitor
April 16, 2013
Future approaches to extending the lives of the nation’s nuclear warheads are likely to be restrained in their scope in the wake of the challenges faced by the National Nuclear Security Administration to contain costs on the B61 refurbishment, the former head of the agency said yesterday. Estimates to refurbish the B61 bomb have reached as high as $10 billion, even as some safety and security features have been dialed back, and former NNSA chief Linton Brooks said yesterday during a speech at the American Security Project that the future would likely bring more of the same. With the B61, “there were those who said this is our last chance to see these weapons for a very long time … and things to make it safer and more reliable, we should put those in,” Brooks said. “That proved in some cases to be unaffordable. I think we’ve learned, the nuclear community, has learned the lesson.” Brooks suggested that in the future, financial pressure would force restraint when it comes to life extension work. “These are extraordinarily safe weapons now and you look at the entire system, they’re extraordinarily secure so I think that the community is unlikely to spend lots of money to add some more decimal points to safety and security,” Brooks said. “There is this bias for let’s make it as good as we can. I think money is in the process of trumping that big time over the next couple years.”
Brooks also addressed the Obama Administration’s $7.9 billion Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for the NNSA’s weapons program, suggesting that it should be more than enough to satisfy Congressional Republicans that have been critical of the Administration for backing off of modernization commitments it made during debate on the New START Treaty. “I will say that the conservatives who are not convinced by this budget that the president is serious about the half of the Prague speech that said ‘maintain a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent as long as we have nuclear weapons’ simply aren’t going to be convinced,” he told NW&M Monitor on the sidelines of the event. “If you look back and compare it to the administration I was in, this Administration has paid a lot more attention to the weapons complex.”
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This administration didn't deliberately stab the labs in the heart.
Linton Brooks, turncoat, did.
“These are extraordinarily safe weapons now and you look at the entire system, they’re extraordinarily secure so I think that the community is unlikely to spend lots of money to add some more decimal points to safety and security,” Brooks said.
Brooks is a "simpleton". In his time off, since giving the Labs away, he devises uncanny and absolutely idiotic statements like these. We need to send this guy to an remote island where he can't hurt anyone except himself.
Why is Brooks so concerned about saving money now? Isn't he singly responsible for giving the Labs to the Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)? Now that's been a real "cost savings"!
It's hard to believe that ANYONE in their "right mind" would invite Brook's to be a featured speaker. He definitely has the "gift of gab" but he has no brains. Look at the "screw-ups", he's even admitted his own ignorance.
“…absolutely idiotic statements like these…”
So, who is it that is saying our stockpile is not safe and secure – the Labs?
So, who is it that is saying our stockpile is not safe and secure – the Labs?
April 17, 2013 at 5:10 AM
Nah, the lab directors sign the letters every year. That is what they are paid to do.
There is one gnawing question that I have never seen answered. "What is the scientific basis for SS?"
April 19, 2013 at 10:54 PM:
You haven't seen the question answered because it is so non-specific as to be meaningless.
Brooks has no shame to "come out" and show his face after he personally destroyed the Labs and done nothing to correct it. His next talk should be entitled: "How I personally destroyed the Nations Nuclear Weapon National Laboratories".
Firing Brooks was perhaps the only positive thing Bodman ever did.
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