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Don’t ‘Break the NNSA’ With Unrealistic Expectations, Pentagon Official Says

Sarah Salem

Thursday, August 15th, 2024

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OMAHA, Neb. — The U.S. “cannot add additional stress” to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to up its strategic capabilities, a Department of Defense official said at a strategic command symposium here on Tuesday. “We have a nuclear enterprise that is sized for a post Cold War era,” Vipin Narang, Department of Defense acting assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said via teleconference at the 2024 U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium here. Narang added that “we can’t break”…

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