
The Defense Department remains satisfied with the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) strategy to produce plutonium pits at two facilities, but time is short to get started, a senior Pentagon official said here. “DoD is fully behind the NNSA’s current plan,” Peter Fanta, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear matters, said in a question-and-answer session at the ExchangeMonitor's annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit. “It is an aggressive plan, it is a difficult plan, they have to stay on timelines that…