This is the result of increasingly strident West German opposition to replacement of the obsolescing Lance.
If we are lucky, we will be left with a far-less-resilient "Dyad" equipped with obsolescing, untested weapons.
Given the fact that they are obsolescing, the only way to be absolutely certain is to conduct underground tests.
And a succession of needed replacements for obsolescing weapon systems will remain right where they are: on the drawing boards.
The question is: What do you do with the billions of dollars worth of obsolescing circuit-switched equipment in the ground?
And, even if they were not obsolescing, weapons designed for the Cold War may be ill-suited and incredible as deterrents to today's threats.
Economic realities seem likely to compel the Kremlin sharply to reduce its obsolescing nuclear arsenal, regardless of the bellicosity of its rhetoric or doctrine.
Even now, thanks to the unilateral U.S. moratorium on such testing adopted in 1992, there are grave and growing uncertainties about the reliability of our obsolescing weaponry.
Yet, President Obama wants to foreclose even the replacement of your obsolescing weapons with one that promises to provide a safe and reliable deterrent in the absence of nuclear testing.
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There is no getting around it: They are obsolescing, increasingly unsupportable and, in any event, primarily designed to destroy super-hardened Soviet silos, not to perform the deterrent missions of today.
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Over time, the practical effect of combining the draconian nuclear cuts Mr. Obama seeks and his failure to arrest and reverse the atrophying of the obsolescing arsenal will leave us functionally disarmed.
Gaffney charged that this deplorable condition is the result of decades of "low budgetary priority, maintenance deferred, investment foregone and obsolescing designs" in the nuclear weapons complex run by the Department of Energy.
While many have been improved and their useful lives extended with more contemporary technology, our troops are handicapped and exposed unnecessarily to peril because they are operating outdated and even obsolescing equipment.
Thanks to sixteen years of inattention, purposeful neglect and willful unilateral disarmament measures under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the United States nuclear arsenal is steadily obsolescing, becoming ever-more-problematic to maintain and increasingly losing its deterrent credibility.
In other words, the Senators reject the President's apparent belief that a smaller nuclear arsenal can be maintained indefinitely absent a comprehensive effort to replace existing, obsolescing weapons and the industrial infrastructure required by such new arms.
It is a tribute to the men and women in uniform, not their former Commander-in-Chief, that they have managed to make what is, in many cases, obsolescing equipment perform as well as it has in Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Worse yet, rather than focus exclusively on such pressing problems as how to maintain -- to say nothing of how to upgrade 1-- that obsolescing arsenal, enormous laboratory resources (human and financial) are being diverted to dubious purposes.
In short, despite the welcome recognition of the need for credible sub-strategic nuclear deterrent forces for the foreseeable future, the actual decisions taken at the NATO summit set the stage for inaction on replacement of obsolescing systems and for new negotiations that will make it problematic even to retain the aging ones now deployed.
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