Additionally, it would significantly increase stewardship and management costs and divert key resources from our critical stockpile sustainment efforts and delay completion of programs necessary to support the long-term safety, security, and reliability of our nuclear deterrent.

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"Without testing, countries will not have enough confidence in new weapons to stockpile them, and that will slow down new weapons systems, " says Thomas Cochran of the Natural Resources Council in Washington.

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