The Guardian calls for NATO to declare war on Russia
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Fun fact: The US has lost the ability to make the detonation material for nukes. We've been cannibalizing out existing arsenal to keep some portion of the bombs active. So our nuclear capacity is shrinking over time. Its very likely most or even all of our bombs will soon be duds.
That does not make sense. Nukes are detonated by lensed conventional explosives.
Tritium.
https://lynceans.org/all-posts/u-s-tritium-production-for-the-nuclear-weapons-stockpile-not-like-the-old-days-of-the-cold-war/
Apparent trtium production restarted: https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.183/gkz.aeb.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Timeline-4_Modern-CLWR-tritium-production-converted.pdf
It's being done with nuclear reactors controlled by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which your link does talk about as well. Basically the issue is just that we didn't need to produce tritium for a while because there was so much of it freely available from decommissioned warheads, so the production cycle atrophied and is now being rebuilt.
The nukes would still work without it, just at lower yields. Still, I don't think there's any chance the Air Force is going to neglect it to the point of not keeping enough for its W87 and W88 warheads.
Tritium is made in nuclear reactors, and we've been shutting them all down. The government no longer values skills over ideology, and doesn't understand what they are doing anymore.
https://lynceans.org/all-posts/u-s-tritium-production-for-the-nuclear-weapons-stockpile-not-like-the-old-days-of-the-cold-war/
All of our current nuclear warheads are "boosted yield" systems, where tritium is injected into the warhead just before detonation to increase weapon yield. But tritium has a half-life of just over 12 years, and once it decays, it becomes a neutron absorber, thus reducing weapon yield.
Problem is, there's no major producer of tritium in the US anymore... we just buy ours from overseas.
NRC looked at restarting tritium production (easiest method is to put boron rods into a reactor) around the turn of the century. The public protested, and the project was cancelled.