Nuclear Stockpile
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Nuclear ModernizationHASC Subcommittee Moves To Constrict DOE Plans For Nuclear Weapon Cores
Democrats on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee on Tuesday used their majority on the panel to kill a GOP amendment that would have kept the Department of Energy’s […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSenate Committee Authorizes Full Funding for Controversial Nuclear-Warhead Core Plants
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s 2020 National Defense Authorization Act would authorize full funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s plan to build nuclear weapon cores in two states, a […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuclear Weapons Spending Bill Moves to House Floor
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would slow development of next-generation, nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, along with Department of Energy infrastructure that supports them. The next stop […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHouse Panel’s NNSA Funding Bill Tees Up More Work for JASON
A 2020 spending proposal from the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee directs the National Nuclear Security Administration to tap the independent group of JASON scientists for at least […]
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Nuclear Modernization
House Subcommittee’s DoE Budget Would Tap Brakes on New ICBMs
A proposed Department of Energy nuclear weapons budget due for a Committee vote in the House Tuesday would tap the brakes forcefully on the next land-based, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) […]
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UncategorizedDoE Nuke Budget Headed to Full Committee Next Week; Bill Report Due Monday
The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee on Wednesday sent the first draft of the Department of Energy’s 2020 budget bill to the full Appropriations Committee for consideration some […]
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BudgetHouse Panel Rejects White House’s NNSA Budget Request, Proposes $15.9 Billion for Nukes in 2020
The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee would deliver an emphatic “no” to the Trump administration’s 2020 budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration, if a $15.9 billion […]
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Nuclear Modernization
New Study Finds NNSA Pit Strategy Unlikely to Meet Production Deadline, Lawmaker Says
The Pentagon and the National Nuclear Security Administration should reconsider their decision to make nuclear weapon cores in two states beginning in 2030 after yet another study concluded the plan […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoD Policy Official Ducks Question About Delivery of Nuclear Cores if Congress Block Planned Plutonium Plant
A senior defense official declined to say Wednesday whether the Department of Energy can deliver nuclear warheads for next-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles on time if Congress does not fund both […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDOE Lab To Seek Bids On Waste Treatment Plant For Warhead Core Factory
The Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to solicit bids in October for design and construction of a facility to treat liquid transuranic waste generated by future production of fissile nuclear-weapon cores, called […]