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New Study Finds NNSA Pit Strategy Unlikely to Meet Production Deadline, Lawmaker Says

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New Study Finds NNSA Pit Strategy Unlikely to Meet Production Deadline, Lawmaker Says
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The Pentagon and the National Nuclear Security Administration should reconsider their decision to make nuclear weapon cores in two states beginning in 2030 after yet another study concluded the plan cannot meet a White House production deadline, a key lawmaker said in a Wednesday hearing. “The Institute for Defense Analyses found that none of the options analyzed by the NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] can be expected to provide 80 pits per year by 2030 and none of the options…

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