Nuclear Convoys: The Physics Package and the Highway
Nuclear warheads have to be maintained, and maintenance means movement. The Office of Secure Transportation runs 42 tractor-trailers and roughly 700 federal couriers, logging about three million miles a year moving warheads, components, and special nuclear material across the United States. This episode digs into what a warhead's physics package actually looks like — and why the modern ones have never been shown publicly — before walking through why the US keeps roughly 3,700 warheads, how Life Extension Programs force cross-country trips like the W76-1's journey from Bangor, Washington to…
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