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Former STRATCOM Hand Tapped for Pentagon Post With Nuclear Weapons Council Role

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

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Former STRATCOM Hand Tapped for Pentagon Post With Nuclear Weapons Council Role

The Trump administration intends to nominate Lucas Polakowski, a former officer at U.S. Strategic Command, to be the top civilian in the Pentagon’s program to counter weapons of mass destruction. The White House announced its intent to nominate Polakowski on Wednesday for the post of assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs. Whoever serves in this post is the staff director for the Nuclear Weapons Council: the joint Pentagon-Department of Energy body in charge of nuclear…

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