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On the recordFebruary 14, 2018
If the threats from Russia and China and Iran and North Korea, potentially other now or future nuclear states were to grow and our leaders determine that we need to produce more than that number of pits per year, with additional funding, do we have the technical ability to achieve that?
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Asks about the ability to increase nuclear pit production in response to growing threats.

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