
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has not won Rep. Adam Smith’s (D-Wash.) unconditional trust, but it has convinced him to authorize the agency’s plan to produce plutonium pits in two states, the House Armed Services chair told reporters Wednesday. “Yes, I believe we are going to move forward with what the NNSA is saying about their pit production plan,” Smith told the George Washington University-sponsored Defense Writers Group. “But it will never be unconditional. I have major trust issues…