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Nuclear Modernization

DoE Relationship With Pentagon ‘Never Stronger;’ Making Warheads Cores in S.C. ‘Won’t Be Easy

Tuesday, March 5th, 2019

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DoE Relationship With Pentagon ‘Never Stronger;’ Making Warheads Cores in S.C. ‘Won’t Be Easy

The relationship between the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Defense “has never been stronger,” the head of the semi-autonomous civilian weapons agency said Tuesday at a public meeting in Washington. U.S. Strategic Command “is our customer. But they don’t think of themselves as our customer, they think of themselves as their partner,” National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty said. “And we think of them as our partner.” Gordon-Hagerty was one of several high-ranking officials to…

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