The legislation also continues a stimulus-package program that funds comparative-effectiveness research testing existing treatments for a condition against one another because fewer treatment failures should mean lower costs.

NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing

In the absence of such testing, the actual condition of our existing nuclear weapons stockpile has already become more uncertain than it was when the U.S. was testing these devices.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A credible nuclear deterrent

Can the existing stockpile be maintained indefinitely in a safe and reliable condition through the "remanufacture" of current weapon designs without nuclear testing?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy