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House Panel’s 2019 NNSA Budget Cans Interoperable Warhead, Jump-Starts LANL Pits

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018

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House Panel’s 2019 NNSA Budget Cans Interoperable Warhead, Jump-Starts LANL Pits

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A draft 2019 budget bill up for a vote in the House today would steer the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) away from creating a nuclear warhead that could fly on both Navy and Air Force missiles, and jump-start construction of a new warhead-core factory at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.That is according to a bill report released Tuesday by the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee. The report explains in detail how the NNSA should…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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