What's the history of pit production? And why is it claimed that new facilities are needed? And how did Los Alamos become the primary site for this activity? And how's that going?

Yeah, so to go all the way back in the history of pit production, you know, throughout most of the Cold War, when you mentioned, you know, we had more than, you know, 30,000 weapons, pits were made at Rocky Flats.

So this was a, you know, factory that at its peak could churn out between one and 2,000 pits per year to sustain that demand during the peak of the Cold War.

When the Cold War ended and Rocky Flats was shut down in 1989, by the way, by the FBI for EPA violations.

It was one of the only instances of, I think, one federal agency shutting down another one by raid because of really egregious environmental violations at the site.

But, you know, just shortly after that, the Soviet Union was dissolving.

The Cold War was coming to an end.

What, what is that all about?