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Dan Leone
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CongressHawks File Bill to Prohibit Spending on Nuke Treaty Extension Talks
A bill introduced Wednesday by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), and supported by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), would prohibit the Trump administration from extending the primary U.S.-Russia nuclear arms-control treaty beyond […]
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Congress
Aspiring HASC Chair Has Three-Point Plan for Nuke Policy in Next Congress; Eyes ICBMs
The aspiring chair of the House Armed Services Committee said here Wednesday he wants to scrap the Trump administration’s nuclear posture review, whip up a multilateral intermediate-range nuclear forces-style treaty, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Laying Off 500 at Plutonium Conversion Plant
The prime contractor for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility will lay off roughly a third of its workforce in early January, according to federally required layoff notices filed Nov. 8, […]
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Navy/USMCWelding Mistake With Columbia Missile Tubes Was Bigger Problem Than BWXT Thought
Botching welds on 12 missile tubes for the Columbia-class submarine earlier this year proved a costly mistake for BWX Technologies [BWXT], which on Wednesday said the problems with its welding […]
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Nuclear Modernization
GD Electric Boat Tightening Oversight on Vendor That Botched Columbia Missile Tubes
General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat brought the hammer down on the supplier that botched a weld job this year on 12 missile tubes intended for the Columbia-class submarine, the president […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Dems’ House Victory Paints Target on Nuclear Modernization and Low-Yield Warhead
Having won control of the House of Representatives for the upcoming 116th Congress, Democrats are likely to heighten scrutiny of the nuclear arsenal modernization regime and paint a big target on the […]
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Navy/USMC
Caldwell Insists Columbia Construction Will Start in 2021 — But Hard Work Needed to Make Patrol in 2031
The head of the joint Navy-Department of Energy naval reactors program insisted construction on the first Columbia-class ballistic submarine will begin in 2021, but warned that “there will be problems,” […]
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Congress
Freewheeling Science Committee Fixture Rohrabacher Loses Reelection Bid
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s (R-Calif.) dead-on Ronald Reagan impersonation will ring no more in the halls of the Rayburn Office building in Washington. The 15-term Congressman — a cold warrior, russophile, […]
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Navy/USMC
Naval Reactors Head to Speak Wednesday at Sub Conference
The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s naval reactors program, steward of the heavy-industry programs that provide nuclear propulsion systems for the Navy, is scheduled to speak Wednesday to […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Democrats Could Force Big Nuclear Modernization Debate, If They Take the House
A Democratic House with a Democratic Armed Services Committee chairman who is openly skeptical of the established nuclear modernization program is perhaps the most plausible consequence of the 2018 midterm […]