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Budget

Projected NNSA Budgets Can Handle Low-Yield Warhead, DoE Officials Tell Congress

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

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Projected NNSA Budgets Can Handle Low-Yield Warhead, DoE Officials Tell Congress

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry

Energy Secretary Rick Perry and the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) both assured Congress last week that the two new low-yield warheads called for in the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review can fit in projected agency budgets.Perry and NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty faced the same question Thursday on separate sides of Capitol Hill, where lawmakers could not seem to shake the warning former NNSA chief Frank Klotz dropped on his way out the door in January: that…

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