Given the serious cost, scheduling, and scientific questions about the US government's program for producing new plutonium cores (or pits) for nuclear warheads, the authors recommend the program be scaled back to manufacture 10 to 20 pits per year. Such a demonstration production line would establish the capacity to produce pits, if further research shows they are needed.
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