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A House appropriations panel on Monday followed through with its promise not to grant a $3-plus-billion budget request for civilian nuclear weapons programs as part of a 2021 spending bill that would also forbid preparation for a nuclear yield-test, limit Pentagon influence on DoE budgets, and potentially slow development of a proposed new Navy warhead. For active nuclear weapons programs, managed by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee proposed about…
