Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear ModernizationSpending Deferrals on Civilian Nuclear Weapons Programs Headed Home to Roost, GAO Says
“The bow wave has arrived” for the civilian nuclear-weapons budget, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned Wednesday in a report that, amid recommendations for streamlining budget and project organization, made […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNavy Should Scrap SLCM, Acting Secretary Says
The Navy should scrap plans to develop a nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM), the service’s acting secretary wrote in a memo dated June 4. Media this week widely reported on […]
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Nuclear ModernizationUSAF General Not Concerned About Delays to New ICBM Warhead Core, Despite SNAFU With Construction of Civilian Manufacturing Plant
The head of Air Force Global Strike Command is not concerned that the next-generation warhead for the next-generation nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile will be delayed because of a projected delay […]
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Business/FinancialContractor for Civilian Nuke Production Sites Gets Short Extension
Consolidated Nuclear Security will remain on the job at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two big production sites at least two months longer than planned and possibly as many as […]
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Budget
Biden’s $20B Civil Nuke Budget Whacks Weapons, Compared With Trump Forecast
As part of a roughly $20 billion 2022 budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Biden administration last Friday sought about 12 percent less for civilian nuclear weapons […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Core Factory Might be Five Years Later Than Hoped, Civilian Weapons Nominee Tells Senators
A planned pit factory to be built at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., might take five years longer than the National Nuclear Security Administration wanted to produce its […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSRS Finished Tritium Upgrades for B61-12 in February
The Savannah River Site in February completed upgrades to tritium processing facilities at the site’s H-Area that will allow personnel to fill tritium reservoirs for the planned B61-12 nuclear gravity […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCBO Publishes Latest Nuke Modernization Report Days Ahead of Budget Rollout
Once again, the Congressional Budget Office’s biennial cost estimate for the 10 years of nuclear modernization spending has arrived just in time for the yearly federal budget debate on Capitol […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSenators Probe Acting NNSA Chief About Livermore Pits, Foreign Uranium
In a budget hearing that was mostly a best-of, a couple senators asked the acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) about alternative means of meeting the mission […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCalifornia Congressman Again Calls for Pause on GBSD
Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.), a reliable vote against the nuclear-modernization status quo in the House Armed Services Committee, told disarmament advocates Monday that the Biden administration should pause development of […]