Marshall Billingslea, President Trump’s new pointman on arms control, warned Thursday that if Congress slows down the ongoing U.S. nuclear modernization plan, it would undercut arms control negotiations with Russia and China. “Congress has strongly supported the modernization of our deterrent,†...
Nuclear Modernization
The Department of Energy late Monday published the framework that its employees and support services contractors will use to plan their return to federal sites and offices during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The civilian agency manages nuclear weapons design and production sites through its ...
The Air Force completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for the Northrop Grumman [NOC]- developed Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) in late April, the service said May 15. The PDR took place April 28-30 and is the latest major programmatic milestone for the service to undertake virtually, ...
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is set to begin testing its own employees for COVID-19 on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the northern New Mexico lab confirmed Monday. The local Los Alamos Reporter broke the news Monday. Los Alamos is the second National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) ...
Two more staffers at Department of Energy headquarters buildings in and near Washington, D.C., have tested positive for COVID-19, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Friday. One of these people works at the Forrestal Building in downtown Washington, another in the DoE’s Germantown ...
Experiments resumed at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California in late April, following a COVID-19 shutdown, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration said late Friday. The high-powered laser facility’s MShock ...
