Keywords: Pantex weapon assembly operations.jpg en Technicians at DOE ™s Pantex Plant near Amarillo Texas perform final assembly on a nuclear warhead Employing about 2 700 workers Pantex performs nuclear weapons assembly disassembly testing quality assurance repair retirement and disposal President Reagan ™s defense buildup in the early and mid-1980s resulted in increased production levels at Pantex and throughout DOE ™s nuclear weapons complex http //web archive org/web/20090720064746/http //www energy gov/news/2431 htm photo 2442 http //www energy gov/news/2431 htm photo 2442 United States Department of Energy was taken verbatim from the caption appear on the www energy gov website Date of download identical to first upload to wikipedia 2009-09-30 PD-USGov Nuclear bombs of the United States Pantex Plant Texas in the 1980s |