TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medalia, Jonathan E.
ED  - Congressional Research Service, CRS.
TI  - Manufacturing nuclear weapon 'pits': a decisionmaking approach for Congress 
T2  - CRS report, R43685
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - CRS
KW  - nuclear weapons
KW  - plutonium
KW  - USA
KW  - official publication
N1  - SIP1409; "August 15, 2014"; A “pit” is the plutonium “trigger” of a thermonuclear weapon. During the Cold War, the Rocky Flats Plant (CO) made up to 2,000 pits per year (ppy), but ceased operations in 1989. Since then, the Department of Energy (DOE) has made at most 11 ppy for the stockpile, yet the Department of Defense stated that it needs DOE to have a capacity of 50 to 80 ppy to extend the life of certain weapons and for other purposes. This report focuses on 80 ppy, the upper end of this range
UR  - http://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R43685.pdf
ER  -