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Nuclear Weapons Council Plans Spring Field Trips to ‘Key’ NNSA Facilities

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

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To help hash out military requirements for two new low-yield nuclear warheads called for in the Trump administration's new Nuclear Posture Review, the bi-agency Nuclear Weapons Council is planning a series of road trips to key Department of Energy nuclear weapons labs and production facilities this spring, a senior Pentagon official said here Thursday."I’m hoping to be able to do it sometime in April," Guy Roberts, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs, told sister publication…

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