
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Whatever changes the Joe Biden administration’s nuclear posture review prescribes to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in the U.S. national defense strategy, the nuclear production complex will have the same needs as it does now, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) defense programs office said here Tuesday. “I recognize that changes to the current program of record could result from this review,” Charles Verdon, deputy administrator for defense programs, said at the Exchange…