Joint American-British plans to upgrade the Trident nuclear weapons had to be temporarily stalled as the US scientific establishment either forgot how to manufacture, or mislaid blue prints of a critical component, an investigation by a US Congressional watchdog body has revealed.A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said that the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) "lost knowledge" of how to make a little known, but very hazardous material, codenamed Fogbank.
This oversight resulted in the warhead upgrade programme being put back by at least a year, and cost the taxpayer an extra $69 million.
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Well the US is just going to have to ask China, Russia, France or Israel to return the Fogbank plans or do a little (slightly noisy) experimenting ;)
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