U.S. to Spend Hundreds of Millions to Replace a $5 Part in Revamped Nuclear Weapons
Concerns about the reliability of commercial-off-the-shelf capacitors, each of which cost just $5, and that the Department of Energy had been planning to use in two future nuclear warhead designs will delay both programs by at least a year and a half and could result in up to a whopping $850 million in additional costs.