US nuclear weapons are aging quickly. With few spare parts, how long can they last?
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — When hundreds of land-based nuclear armed ballistic missiles were first lowered into underground cement silos spread across the vast cornfields here in 1970, the weapons were only intended to last a decade before a newer system came in. Fifty years later, these missiles — called the Minuteman III — …
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