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Trump Taps Livermore Hand to Lead NNSA Weapons Programs

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

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Trump Taps Livermore Hand to Lead NNSA Weapons Programs

Charles Verdon

President Trump plans to nominate current Lawrence Livermore hand Charles Verdon to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) roughly $9-billion-a-year nuclear weapons portfolio.The White House announced its intention in a press release late Monday. If recommended by the Senate Armed Services Committee and confirmed by the full Senate, Verdon would be put in charge of the agency’s national network of warhead design laboratories and production facilities — a complex whose budget the Trump administration wants to boost by more…

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