
The Senate Armed Services Committee still has the nominee for the No. 2 spot at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in a holding pattern, the nominee himself said here Tuesday. After his nomination lapsed in the 115th Congress, which ended Jan. 3, the Trump administration again nominated former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist William Bookless to be principal deputy administrator for the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency in Washington, D.C. Bookless, attending the ExchangeMonitor’s annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit here,…