Plutonium pit ‘panic’ threatens America’s nuclear ambitions | The Hill

Plutonium pit ‘panic’ threatens America’s nuclear ambitions | The Hill: This is the second story in a series about Sentinel, the Air Force’s nuclear missile modernization project. Other stories touch on the challenges in the surrounding communities near Sentinel construction and with the Air Force’s budget issues.  At Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where the U.S. built its first nuclear bomb, work on…