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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationAnti-Nuke Populist Warren Might Run for President in 2020
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee who brandished her arms-control and anti-nuclear bonafides throughout 2018, announced this week she might run for president in […]
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UncategorizedAlexander, Top Senate Appropriator for Civilian Nuke-Weapon Agency, to Retire
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who this year secured full construction funding for a crucial defense-uranium plant in his home state, on Monday announced he will leave the Senate after 2020. […]
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BudgetA 1,000-Warhead Arsenal Could Slash U.S Deficit by $13 Billion Over Two Decades, CBO Says
The United States could shave about $13 billion off the federal deficit over about 20 years by slashing some 500 warheads from the nation’s nuclear arsenal, the nonpartisan federal Congressional […]
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Business/FinancialFluor Scoops Nuke Storage Contract at Missile Base
Fluor Federal Services will build a nuclear weapons storage and maintenance facility at the an Frances E. Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a three-and-a-quarter year Army Corps […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Boeing Cleared to Start Production of Tail Kit for B61-12 Gravity Bomb
Air Force contractor Boeing [BA] is clear to start production on crucial hardware for the B61-12 next-generation nuclear gravity bomb, which is scheduled to be built in 2020, the service […]
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InternationalAs Pompeo Issues INF Ultimatum, Defense Hawks in Washington Suggest Weapons for Post-treaty World
The day the U.S. delivered an ultimatum that it could leave the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty by February, hawkish think-tankers and former government shared weapons shopping lists for the […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Nevada Sues DoE, Says it Won’t Accept Weapon-usable Plutonium From S.C.
The state of Nevada asked a federal judge to bar the Department of Energy from shipping a metric ton of plutonium to the state, potentially throwing a wrench in the […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Bechtel $1.5 Billion Worth of Reactor Component Contracts
The Navy has awarded Bechtel Plant Machinery $1.5 billion worth of contracts for naval nuclear propulsion components, the Pentagon said Friday. The money is spread across a pair of Naval […]
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CongressDems Drill NNSA No. 2 Nominee On Warhead Cores, Arms Control Treaty
William Bookless, nominated to be second-in-command at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), defended the agency’s plan to build two nuclear-warhead-core factories in the face of a double-edged inquisition […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Congress Rides In From Recess On A Wave Of Nuclear Policy Moves
Lawmakers set the stage for the nuclear weapons debate to come in the next Congress with a wave of bills and rhetoric that burned the post-Thanksgiving fog from Washington last […]