Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Low-Yield Warhead Details Due in '19 Budget, But Big NNSA Infrastructure Plans Will Wait a Year
Cost and schedule details about a proposed low-yield warhead for submarine-launched ballistic cruise missiles will appear in the White House’s fiscal 2019 budget requests later this month, but details about planned improvements to the Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons complex will not be published until next year, the agency’s top nuclear official said Friday. The Donald Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review, unveiled officially Friday about a month after a mostly similar draft leaked, proposes a large, but unquantified, investment in aging DOE infrastructure. “I don’t have the number,” Steven Erhart, acting administrator of DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, said in response to a question following Friday’s presser at the Pentagon. “[I]t… |
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