Navy Nuclear Weapons

When I was assigned to Field Command Defense Nuclear Agency I was assigned responsibility for the oversight of maintenance of over 2/3 of our nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. My predecessor CWO4 Charlie Schmidt was part of a quality assurance program that removed a weapon from the stockpile and transported it to the Nevada Test Site for an underground shot. Charlie being the "hard-nosed" realist he is insisted that when the bomb was placed underground it be given the same environment it would experience in combat (temperature many degrees below zero). The scientists at DOE and Sandia and Los Alamos fought this saying it wasn't necessary! Charlie insisted and so they agreed...the day of the test instead of going "boom" the bomb went "poof". It was discovered that a certain component was failing under cool temperatures! Although it was been years since my active participation in the program I have fears for our nation's true ability to defend herself! Please see the below site that Bill Johnson posed on facebook:
http://www.militarytimes.com/article/2013072...

With Concern: Jim