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Reed Vows NDAA Amendment to Keep Congress in Loop on New Warhead Development

Thursday, June 7th, 2018

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Reed Vows NDAA Amendment to Keep Congress in Loop on New Warhead Development

Trident II missile being deployed. (Photo: DoD).

Besides backing a new low-yield warhead and at least one more year of building a plutonium disposal plant, the Senate Armed Services Committee is pressing the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to exchange some weapons personnel with the Pentagon, in a bid to improve relations between the government’s major nuclear weapons agencies.That is according to the long-awaited text of the committee's fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was unveiled Wednesday about a week after the panel approved it…

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