
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…