This assumes a 365-day work year. If you imagine they got weekends and holidays off, it's more like 28 per day.
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A number I looked up lately: At the height of US weapon production in 1960, US was producing on average of 20 new nuclear weapons per *day.*
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In the 1960s, Soviet Union was deploying new ICBMs at the rate of one missile every working day for four years in a row...
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All thanks to the AEC's so-called 50-150 expansion program of 1952, which arbitrarily increased production of Pu by 50% and HEU by 150%.
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So much for Kennedy's claim during the '60 campaign of there being a missile gap.
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Alex is talking bombs and warheads, not missiles. But there was an actual missile gap. It just favored us 6:1 in 1960.
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Sorry, my mistake. I realized that as soon as I wrote that.
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In context of later 40K & 60K warhead totals, not that surprising http://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-weapons/ …
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I recall interviewing physicist who had been at Sandia in 60s; was appalled at production line nature of it.
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