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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationSTRATCOM Commander Met With Biden Transition Team; Worries About Weapons Complex
The commander of U.S. nuclear forces, who met with President-elect Joe Biden’s (D) transition team recently, worried Monday that the civilian nuclear weapons complex faces problems bigger than a potential […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNew Underground Subcritical Nuke Tests Underway; Second Shot Set for Spring ’21
The Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Nevada National Security Site are resetting the underground U1a facility at the former Nevada Test Site for the second in three planned Nightshade […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Lab Brings in Ex-Raytheon Exec as Deputy Director
The Sandia National Laboratories split its Nuclear Deterrence division into two new organizations and brought in a former Raytheon [RTN] executive to oversee them, the Albuquerque, N.M.-based labs network said […]
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BudgetSenate Rolls House Again in Civilian Nuke Negotiations; DoE Weapons Budget at $19.7B in Omnibus
Civilian nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy will get almost all of the $3 billion raise the White House requested for fiscal year 2021, under the omnibus spending […]
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Nuclear Modernization
One More Month to Narrow Down Tech Choice for Domestic Uranium Enrichment, NNSA Says
The coronavirus pandemic pushed a choice between two competing defense-uranium enrichment technologies to January from December, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Wednesday. It’s the second time this year […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPentagon Appoints Ex-NNSA Administrator Gordon-Hagerty to Advisory Board
The Pentagon appointed Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, until recently the administrator of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), to the Defense Policy Board Wednesday, potentially giving DoE’s former nuclear-weapons […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLittle Chance of Deviating From Obama, Trump Nuclear Posture Reviews, HASC Chair Says
Even in a government where Democrats will control the White House and at least one chamber of Congress, political consensus appears to favor continuing the nuclear modernization program the Obama […]
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Congress
Compromise NDAA Also a Compromise on DoE, Pentagon Control Over Civilian Nuke Budget
A version of the fiery interagency and inter-branch tug of war that produced this year’s controversial civilian nuclear weapons budget would be essentially legalized, if a compromise 2021 defense authorization […]
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Nuclear ModernizationRussia Still Willing to Deal With Trump Administration on New START, Ambassador Says
Russia would still do a deal with the Trump Administration to extend the New START nuclear arms-control treaty, but a five-year extension would be best, because negotiating a follow-on treaty […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Recent and Impending DoE Leadership Churn Highlight Need to Fix NNSA Chief’s Term, Nat’l Academies Panel Says
The personnel churn in the Trump administration’s nuclear-weapons enterprise and Joe Biden’s election as President of the United States highlight the urgency of giving the administrator of the National Nuclear […]