If plutonium aging is not an imminent threat to the present stockpile—and by extension to US nuclear deterrence—accelerated pit production therefore signals that the United States is dangerously hurtling toward renewed nuclear competition in contravention of its legal obligations as a state party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. https://thebulletin.org/2026/10/the-us-governments-dangerous-rush-to-produce-new-plutonium-pits/