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Don’t think those comments were trying to be relevant to today’s nuclear enterprise which we’re all aware isn’t even a shadow of itself more like a whisper in a wind storm (to wax poetic) but rather just a historical reminder of what once was…Rookie numbers. 2,500+ W31s produced just for the Nike Hercules force at the same time they were kicking out 25 MT W41s and nukes for every other missile in the inventory.From the Wiki page - a thousand warheads of that single type produced in seven years 1984-90 at the same time hundreds of W87s W88s and other warhead types, incredible.
Sort of irrelevant. The U.S. has no capability to produce any new nuclear warheads, not entirely unlike Russia.
PRC and France have the most developed and complete nuclear industrial complexes nowadays.