Reduced Monitoring of Nuclear Stockpile Lowers Reliability: Study
A team of statisticians has determined that reducing data collection of the United States' aging nuclear arsenal would seriously undermine confidence in the systems' ability to operate as designed, Brigham Young University announced late last month (see GSN, July 11).Brigham Young statistics professor Shane Reese and one-time co-workers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory studied the degree of likelihood that U.S. nuclear weapons would operate as intended if needed. They published their findings in the journal Technometrics.
"The purpose is to perform science experiments to get at the efficacy of a weapons system that has exceeded its original design life and certainly experienced some effects due to aging," Reese said in provided comments.
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