Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

Appeals Judges Won’t Bother With Oral Arguments in Nev. Plutonium Case

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A federal appeals court decided last week it does not need to hear oral arguments about whether the U.S. government violated environmental law when it sent half a metric ton of weapon-usable plutonium to the Nevada in 2018.
In what could be a sign that judges will…

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