Why is "Pit (nuclear weapon)" trending?

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• The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile - Department of Energy (.gov)
• Deep in China’s Mountains, a Nuclear Revival Takes Shape - The New York Times
• Nuclear testing: It’s the pits - Asia Times
• Ask a Scientist: New Plutonium Pits for Nuclear Weapons Are Not Needed - The Equation - Union of Concerned Scientists
• The Workers, the Waste, and the Warnings from Bomb Country - Inkstick
• Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Does Not Have a Comprehensive Schedule or Cost Estimate for Pit Production Capability - U.S. Government Accountability Office (.gov)
• The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. Making more is uncertain - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• It’s Time to Rethink US Nuclear Weapons Manufacturing - The Equation - Union of Concerned Scientists
• Nuclear bomb-building plan faces sweeping Energy Department review - USA Today
• Behind the Scenes at a U.S. Factory Building New Nuclear Bombs - Scientific American
• Fact Sheet: U.S. Plutonium Pit Production - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
• Aging nuclear arsenal poses dire threat to U.S. - U.S. Senate (.gov)
• Inside the Los Alamos Lab Making Nuclear Bomb Parts Again - Time Magazine
• New Declassifications on Nuclear Weapons Safety and Security - National Security Archive
• How to Make a ‘War Reserve’ Nuclear Bomb - The Progressive
• Why is the US ramping up production of plutonium ‘pits’ for nuclear weapons? - The Guardian
• Plutonium Pit Production - Union of Concerned Scientists
• DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• How quickly could Iran build its first nuclear weapon? Look at China - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Nuclear Weapons - Union of Concerned Scientists
• Seismic shift: How U.S. policies on nuclear weapons are likely to change under Donald Trump - Searchlight New Mexico
• Energy Department orders "special" investigation of plutonium pit problems - Axios
• Planned expansion of Savannah River Site nuclear weapons facility needs environmental commitment - Georgia Recorder
• Plutonium-239 and Its Relationship with Uranium-235 in Thermonuclear Weapons - Global Security Review
• Atomic weapons project in SC could cost taxpayers more than $30 billion - The State
• Nuclear watchdogs, scientists question need for SC plutonium plant amid environmental study - SC Daily Gazette
• Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and debate among scientists - Science News
• Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? - Science | AAAS
• The core debate - Searchlight New Mexico
• Plutonium just had a bad day in court - Searchlight New Mexico
• Nuclear weapons monitors demand environmental review of new bomb production plans - People's World
• The State and Viability of Russia's Nuclear Arsenal in 2025 - Missile Matters — with Fabian Hoffmann
• New President, Same Wasteful Spending: Why Is the US Still Spending So Much on Nuclear Weapons? - The Equation - Union of Concerned Scientists
• A Pit Stop on Natasha Bajema’s Radioactive Road Trip - James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
• Plutonium pit ‘panic’ threatens America’s nuclear ambitions - The Hill
• Decision on site for plutonium pit production expected by Friday - Santa Fe New Mexican
• Opinion | The Staggering Price You’re Paying for America’s Nuclear Makeover (Published 2024) - The New York Times
• Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You’ve Never Heard Of - Scientific American
• Reconsidering U.S. Plutonium Pit Production Plans - Arms Control Association
• Crisis in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Part 3—The Problem Starts with the Pits - PA TIMES Online
• SRS Plutonium Pit Production opponents tour facility, say it would restart nuclear arms race - Post and Courier
• A Congressional Perspective on Nuclear Weapons Spending and Arms Control - Arms Control Association
• A near-disaster at a federal nuclear weapons laboratory takes a hidden toll on America's arsenal - Science | AAAS
• Rising costs, environmental impact of SC nuclear bomb factory sparks rare tour - The State
• First Plutonium Pit For Nuclear Warhead Produced In The U.S. In 35 Years Is Now "Weapon-Ready" - The War Zone
• Warren, Garamendi call for pause, review of nuclear bomb-building plan - USA Today
• Plutonium pit-aging studies will cost NNSA at least $1B, not counting equipment, GAO says - exchangemonitor.com
• US Produces First Plutonium Pit For Nuclear Weapons Since 1989 - IFLScience
• China expands nuclear warhead manufacturing capacity, research finds - The Washington Post
• Why Los Alamos lab is working on the tricky task of creating new plutonium cores - Popular Science
• Manufacturing Nuclear Weapon "Pits": A Decisionmaking Approach for Congress - Every CRS Report
• Critics at hearing speak out against expansion plan, pit production at LANL - Santa Fe New Mexican
• U.S. Dept. of Energy steps up plutonium pit manufacturing at Savannah River Site - Savannah Morning News
• Feds to study potential danger of nuclear factory at SRS. Could it delay jobs-rich plant? - The State
• LNLL Holds Nuclear Weapon Stress Test at NIF | Business | Dec 2025 - Photonics Spectra
• Minorities threatened by atomic weapons plants in S. Carolina and NM, groups say - The State
• Los Alamos confirms UMich data center to be used for nuclear weapons research - The Michigan Daily
• MOX Facility to Switch to Plutonium Pits - Arms Control Association
• Inside the nuclear weapons research Los Alamos will conduct with University of Michigan - MLive.com
• Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons - Chicago Tribune
• Atomic bomb factory could produce more than 1,000 jobs for SC. But how safe is it? - Greenville Online
• Nuclear weapons woes: Understaffed nuke agency hit by DOGE and safety worries - USA Today
• Nuclear weapons development coming soon to Los Alamos National Laboratory amid safety concerns - USA Today
• Document: DOE considering SRS as site to build nuclear weapons components - Post and Courier
• Plutonium Pit Bomb Plans Excoriated by General Accounting Office - CounterPunch.org
• It’s All Nukes, All Night, At Intense HASC Markup Debate - Breaking Defense
• The nuclear money pit - The Economist
• Opinion | A disturbing broken link in the nuclear weapons chain - The Washington Post
• Nuclear weapon facilities to expand in New Mexico - Pressenza - International Press Agency
• Rise in plutonium production points to more work at Pantex - Amarillo Globe-News
• Fire Resistant Pits - armscontrolwonk.com
• Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons - CTV News
• Nuclear Pits: Death in Its Most Concentrated Form - Foreign Policy in Focus
• Feds to announce best site option for nuclear weapons production - Digital Journal
• Senators ask government watchdog to assess NNSA's nuclear weapons spending - Post and Courier
• With Russia at war in Ukraine, US ramps up nuclear-weapons mission at Los Alamos. Is it a 'real necessity'? - USA Today
• Welfare not warfare: Labour must scrap disgraceful nuclear weapons - Scottish Greens
• China secretly expanding nuclear arsenal just 800 km from Arunachal Pradesh - India Today