The National Nuclear Security Administration announced that it had selected a design for a new generation of nuclear warheads.(Brief article)

The National Nuclear Security Administration announced that it had selected a design for a new generation of nuclear warheads. That immediately threw a handful of congressional Democrats into a tizzy. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she was "100 percent opposed," and Rep. Peter J. Visclosky, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding nuclear weapons, demanded that the Bush administration justify the need for a new warhead. But the need isn't so hard to see. The current stockpile of roughly 6,000 warheads is decades old. ...