Reply #10: Well, they are already built [View All]

[krispos42]

We've already made them decades ago. All we need to do now is is maintain them and stockpile them. The cost of doing that is nominal, it would seem to me, and dismantling and reprocessing them would offer no real financial savings or strategic benefit.

We were originally intending to have to destroy huge numbers of targets in a huge country, and we needed redundency in that attack, so that's why we needed so many warheads.

Once you buy a gun and the ammo for it, it doesn't cost anything extra to keep the box on the shelf or the gun in the closet.