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Dan Leone
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UncategorizedAmendment to Maintain Congressional Scrutiny of New Nuke Warhead Programs Narrowly Survives Kill Vote
After a nail-biter of an amendment vote Wednesday, the Department of Energy may still have to seek congressional approval to start work on new nuclear warheads, if the Senate’s version […]
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CongressSenate Dems Introduce Amendment to Strip Low-Yield Warhead From NDAA
A group of Senate Democrats led by Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wants to strip funding for a new low-yield nuclear warhead out of the Senate’s 2019 National Defense Authorization Act […]
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Nuclear ModernizationReed Vows NDAA Amendment to Keep Congress in Loop on New Warhead Development
Besides backing a new low-yield warhead and at least one more year of building a plutonium disposal plant, the Senate Armed Services Committee is pressing the National Nuclear Security Administration […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSenate Appropriators Want to Keep Interoperable Warhead
Senate appropriators favor continuing sustaining an Obama-era program to create a so-called interoperable nuclear warhead that could fly on future Air Force and Navy missiles — a program their House […]
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Uncategorized
House 2019 NDAA Has Low-Yield Warhead, No Pits for Savannah River
The House of Representatives easily passed its version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Thursday, sending the Senate a strongly bipartisan bill that calls for the National […]
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CongressSenate Appropriations Panel Would Fund Low-Yield Ballistic Missile in 2019
The National Nuclear Security Administration would receive not quite $15 billion if a Department of Energy budget bill approved Tuesday by a Senate Appropriations subcommittee becomes law. The bulk of […]
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Homeland SecurityRegents Approve Extra $7 Million for UT’s Los Alamos Bid
The University of Texas on Friday approved an extra $7 million for the institution’s bid on the next Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operations contract with the Department of […]
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Nuclear Modernization
UT Needs Extra $7 Million to Take Over LANL, if It Wins the Contract
A leaked report from a nominally independent office within the National Nuclear Security Administration offers a trove of new details about the cost estimate for a plan the agency must […]
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Congress
House NNSA Budget Would Fund Low-Yield Warhead, But Not Pit Production in S.C.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would get the $65 million it seeks in fiscal 2019 for a low-yield nuclear warhead, but nothing for a new warhead-core factory in South […]
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BudgetHouse Panel’s 2019 NNSA Budget Cans Interoperable Warhead, Jump-Starts LANL Pits
A draft 2019 budget bill up for a vote in the House today would steer the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) away from creating a nuclear warhead that could fly […]