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House Panel Seeks To Clarify Policy On Warhead Changes

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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

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By George Lobsenz A House Armed Services Committee panel last week moved to clarify politically sensitive warhead modification policies by adopting legislation to establish a new "stockpile management" program to delineate the parameters for weapons modernization by the Energy Department. The strategic forces subcommittee of the armed services committee also voted to cut the Energy Department's nuclear cleanup program by $100 million to fund increases in various weapons programs, including refurbishment of Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, which had been…

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