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Dems Drill NNSA No. 2 Nominee On Warhead Cores, Arms Control Treaty

Friday, November 30th, 2018

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Dems Drill NNSA No. 2 Nominee On Warhead Cores, Arms Control Treaty

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

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 from a pair of Senate Democrats last Thursday.Facing pressure from a third Democratic lawmaker during his confirmation hearing, the physicist and longtime Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staffer also indicated he could support renewing the primary U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control treaty.Despite the hard-edged questioning, no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee…

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