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(AP) - By the time the government got around to rebuilding nuclear warheads for Trident submarines, the processes for making a key classified component called Fogbank were dismantled, records were gone and knowledgeable employees had retired at an Oak Ridge weapons plant.

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(AP) -- By the time the government got around to rebuilding nuclear warheads for Trident submarines, the processes for making a key classified component called Fogbank were dismantled, records were gone and knowledgeable employees had retired at an Oak Ridge weapons plant.

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The GAO report concluded: "NNSA did not effectively manage one of the highest risks of the programme - the manufacture of a key material known as Fogbank - resulting in $69m in cost over-runs and a schedule delay of at least one year that presented significant logistical challenges for the navy."

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The report concluded: "NNSA did not effectively manage one of the highest risks of the programme - the manufacture of a key material known as Fogbank - resulting in $69 million in cost over-runs and a schedule delay of at least one year that presented significant logistical challenges for the navy."

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The U.S. National Nuclear S.curity Administration recently postponed its crucial program to rejuvenate quarter-century-old Trident missile warheads because no one can remember how to make a key component of the weapons (code named "Fogbank"), according to a report of the Government Accountability Office.

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The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration recently postponed its crucial program to rejuvenate quarter-century-old Trident missile warheads because no one can remember how to make a key component of the weapons (code named "Fogbank"), according to a report of the Government Accountability Office.

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Concern over the U.S. strategic nuclear stockpile, illustrated by problems with a classified material called "Fogbank," has triggered quiet maneuverings on Capitol Hill related to negotiations to extend the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2009

"Fogbank" plays a key part in the W-76, the nuclear warhead on the Navy's Trident II sub-launched intercontinental ballistic missile and the country's most numerous and important strategic nuclear weapons.

Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2009

Regarding a classified material codenamed 'Fogbank', a Government Accountability Office report released this month states that "NNSA had lost knowledge of how to manufacture the material because it had kept few records of the process when the material was made in the

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The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) "lost knowledge" of how to make a mysterious but very hazardous material codenamed Fogbank.

Gates of Vienna 2009