There's no mandated periodic testing to see if the user is really staying off these dangerous chemicals.
The answer remains obvious: Periodic testing remains desirable.
And as age changes the physical condition and interactions of weapons' components and materials, the probability will increase that -- without a renewal of periodic testing -- such defects will increase in severity and number.
For most of the nuclear era, successive U.S. administrations of both political parties regarded periodic nuclear testing as essential to the maintenance of a safe, reliable and effective nuclear deterrent.
Do you believe that can be accomplished without periodic underground nuclear testing?
Both of these activities will require periodic underground nuclear testing.
United States will have to resume periodic underground nuclear testing.
Without periodic, realistic testing, it is not scientifically possible to assure with high confidence that existing nuclear weapons are as safe and reliable as we know how to make them.
There is no getting around it: Periodic, safe underground testing is required to have and maintain that confidence.
Periodic, safe, underground testing has proven essential to the assuring the reliability, safety and credibility of America's nuclear stockpile.
Specifically, it is time to revisit whether the viability of the deterrent can be assured over the long-term without periodic safe, underground nuclear testing.
Dr. Schlesinger also addressed the outdated "bi-polar" thinking that seems to animate the nuclear abolition movement and the need not only to reject such notions but also to pursue, in light of the character of the post-Cold War world, periodic low-yield underground testing, nuclear modernization and the deployment of strategic anti-missile defenses as soon as they are available.
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The bad news is that the Bush Administration has thus far failed to take another step essential if America is to be able to counter the threats of aggression increasingly emanating from Pyongyang and Tehran: We have yet to address the block-obsolescence to which the U.S. nuclear arsenal is effectively condemned in the absence of our own program of periodic, safe underground nuclear testing.
There is, at present, no basis for believing that these and other problems afflicting our aging deterrent -- notably the need to introduce new weapons designs to assure its future effectiveness -- can be resolved without at least periodic, low-yield nuclear testing.
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