
On Wednesday, as Congress prepared for final negotiations on a must-pass bill that could increase the Pentagon’s say over civilian nuclear-weapons programs, the former head of those programs said the Defense Department needs less, not more, sway over such matters. The Pentagon and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Security Administration (NNSA), a semi autonomous DoE agency devoted to nuclear-weapons stewardship, compare notes about nuclear weapons procurement in the meetings of the interagency Nuclear Weapons Council. Most of the…