President Obama is massively expanding U.S. Nuclear Weapons: (price tag: 1 trillion bucks)

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58. Clearly you didn't

The money is flowing into a sprawling complex for making warheads that includes eight major plants and laboratories employing more than 40,000 people. Its oldest elements, some dating to 1943, have long struggled with fires, explosions and workplace injuries. This March, a concrete roof collapsed in Tennessee. More recently, chunks of ceiling clattered down a stairwell there, and employees were told to wear hard hats.

“It’s deplorable,” Representative Chuck Fleischmann, Republican of Tennessee, said at an April hearing. Equipment, he added, “breaks down on a daily basis.”

In some ways, the challenge is similar to what Detroit’s auto industry faces: Does it make sense to pour money into old structures or build new ones that are more secure, are fully computerized and adhere to modern environmental standards?

Nuclear weapons have a lifespan like anything else. I think I'd prefer them not to be maintained in facilities so decrepit that they are literally falling apart. Just exactly where I'd not like to see radioactive materials spread around.

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