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Feinstein Won’t Vote for DoE Budget That Includes B83 Bomb

Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

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Feinstein Won’t Vote for DoE Budget That Includes B83 Bomb

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

The ranking Democrat on the Senate panel that writes the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) annual funding bill said Wednesday she would not vote for a budget that keeps the B83 nuclear gravity bomb in service. Meanwhile, New Mexico’s senior senator laid into the Energy Department subagency's top official about plans to move production of nuclear-weapon cores out of his state.Those were some of the few defense nuclear highlights of a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Appropriations energy and water…

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