Fanta told the audience at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit that DoD and the Department of Energy should collaborate to come up with engineering and manufacturing capabilities to develop updated warheads by 2040s in order to keep pace with potential enemiesâ technological advancements.
âHow do we as DoD send a demand signal into DOE to say: âThis is what we needâ? We start looking at robustness, margin, penetrability, survivability, communications within weapons,â he said.
âWe start looking at the internals of the weapons as well as the delivery systems. ⦠We start looking at what we can do to make them hard by design, flexible by design and able to put them into a new system when we decide what that new system is,â he added.
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