Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons

By TARA COPP The Associated Press KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S. government technicians refurbish the nation’s nuclear warheads. The job is exacting: Each warhead has thousands of springs, gears and copper contacts that must work in conjunction to set off a nuclear explosion. Eight hundred miles away in New Mexico, workers in a steel-walled vault have an equally delica…

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons

KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S. government technicians refurbish the nation’s nuclear warheads. The job is exacting: Each warhead has thousands of springs, gears and copper contacts that must work in conjunction to set off a nuclear explosion. Eight hundred miles (about 1,300 kilometers) away in New Mexico, workers in a steel-walled vault have an equally delicate …

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

It's up to young military troops and government technicians across the U.S. to care for the existing bombs, often through delicate maintenance performed by hand.

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

It's up to young military troops and government technicians across the U.S. to care for the existing bombs, often through delicate maintenance performed by hand.

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

It's up to young military troops and government technicians across the U.S. to care for the existing bombs, often through delicate maintenance performed by hand.

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

It's up to young military troops and government technicians across the U.S. to care for the existing bombs, often through delicate maintenance performed by hand.