abstract:The Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) was a proposed new American nuclear warhead design and bomb family that was intended to be simple, reliable and to provide a long-lasting, low maintenance future nuclear force for the United States. Initiated by the United States Congress in 2004, it became a centerpiece of the plans of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to remake the nuclear weapons complex.
Congress has refused to fund the Department of Energy's ReliableReplacementWarhead program beyond the concept stage and this year it cut funding even for that.
He cited progress under way in developing a reliablereplacementwarhead to sustain the country's nuclear weapons stockpile for the long term without underground nuclear testing.