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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 26
Read Full Issue- House appropriations bill would approve $21B for NNSA in 2023, keep B83 alive, kill SLCM-N
- After UPF delays, Fleischman thinks facility needs double the requested funding
- DNFSB would receive $41 million under House committee’s 2023 budget proposal
- DOE solicits bids for HALEU operations contract at Portsmouth
- Favorable ruling for Biden’s federal vax mandate vacated; entire Appeals court to to rehear case
- Lead DOE approps staffer in House leaving Congress
- Round up: New Mexico awarded DOE grants; senior fellow selected at Savannah River; Triad studies fire alarms
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 25
Read Full Issue- Bipartisan votes in annual defense-spending debate save sea-launched nuke, boost pits by lots
- More NNSA contract scrutiny creeps into 2023 NDAA; forced Minuteman III test voted down
- First-draft of DOE’s 2023 budget misses request for nuclear weapons
- Two-for-one: single bidder could take Paducah, Portsmouth follow-on contracts, DOE says
- Round up: Training down underwater for submarine officers from down under; Glovebox crunch coming; Defense board concerns over Savannah River pits ‘merit attention,’ NNSA says; NNSA job fair ahead of the Fourth
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 24
Read Full Issue- House, Senate split on killing B83 and SLCM-N
- Congress should ‘move forward’ with NNSA’s plan for plutonium pits, Armed Services chair says
- House approps releases first draft of FY23 defense budget; SLCM-N out
- Three weapons uranium systems at Y-12 delayed along with Uranium Processing Facility
- Los Alamos ending on-site COVID-19 testing
- Oak Ridge Laboratory workers agree to settle vaccination case
- GAO finds that Los Alamos safety culture ‘needs improvement,’ according to NNSA
- South Carolina divvies up plutonium settlement money
- Round up: heroics at SRS; hate at Y-12; BWXT buys ship-parts maker
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 23
Read Full Issue- Once-prohibited practice of crushing drums containing flammable rags led to BWXT worker death in 2020, NRC says
- Strategic forces subcommittee approves Nuclear Weapons Council changes, Pantex modernization study for NDAA
- WIPP, NNSA seeking closer cooperation on waste disposal plans
- Amentum reorganizing national security business
- Biden signs bill extending compensation for rad-sickened downwinders, test participants
- Panel seeks $100M annually for low-dose radiation impact; DOE role undecided
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 22
Read Full Issue- State Dept. official won’t endorse unilateral U.S. commitment to New START after treaty ends
- DUF6 incumbent gets six more months to accommodate competition for follow-on work with DUF4 element
- DOE, DNFSB nail down details of board oversight in the Order 140.1 era
- COVID cases quadruple at NNSA sites in May, mirroring national upswing at summer’s start
- Los Alamos to take delivery of new high-performance computer system in 2023
- NNSA wrapping rad scans in Los Angeles ahead of Summit of the Americas
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 21
Read Full Issue- Paducah contract with DUF4 for NNSA out for bids
- NNSA administrator talks posture review, war in Ukraine, radical change in the enterprise during annual meeting of labs professionals
- ‘Tough fights’ ahead on nuclear sea launched cruise missile, B-83, Armed Services chair says
- SRS-area congressman asks appropriators to keep pits whole, reject proposed H-Canyon cut
- DOE sites took shipments of Japanese HEU from reactors in March
- As decades-long modernization slog ramps up, GAO looks into advanced manufacturing across NNSA enterprise
- Cerro Pelado fire 92% contained; Sandia wildfire forced evacuation of DOE National Training Center
- Former SRS engineer hops over to defense board
- Russian sanctions list includes many lawmakers with DOE nuclear connections
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 20
Read Full Issue- NNSA kills controversial award to manage main weapons production sites; plans multiyear extension for incumbent
- Uranium Processing Facility will be eight months late, NNSA says
- Plan to get plutonium-pit factories back on track coming in ‘early fall,’ official tells lawmakers
- Plutonium pit master sked coming this year; first W80-4 cruise missile warhead likely late, NNSA admin testifies
- Personnel change in upper echelons of NNSA Production Office
- Cerro Pelado wildfire increasingly contained; Los Alamos lab employees can return to work
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 19
Read Full Issue- Hearing on nuclear weapons, waste budgets canceled amid voting ‘circus’ on House floor
- Head of Pantex, Y-12 prime contractor to retire
- Weather, steam generator ‘issues’ delay restart of weapons-tritium production at Watts Bar 2
- Columbia, Dreadnought subs ‘bounced back’ from faulty missile tubes, U.S. admiral says
- BWXT Q1 earnings decline as revenue rises
- Los Alamos remained on maximum telework with Cerro Pelado fire burning; county schools were to reopen Monday
- DNFSB appoints trio of new resident inspectors
- Round Up: Energy and climate improvements for NNSA facilities; Pantex labor negotiations; congressional accord over compensation for atmospheric test downwinders
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 18
Read Full Issue- More money won’t buy more pits, NNSA administrator, Nuclear Weapons Council chair tell senators
- Ranking HASC special forces member says SLCM-N, B83 deletes not happening
- Unvaccinated can return to Los Alamos National Lab as ‘normal operations’ resume
- Y-12 employees seeking class action have right venue, the wrong math, site prime says
- Fluor bullish on first quarter earnings, cites DOE biz
- Centrus posts first-quarter loss; says no order cancellations yet amid Russian invasion of Ukraine; eyes LEU enrichment boom for Piketon
- NNSA plans to reorganize headquarters procurement offices in July
- Controlled burn planned near Los Alamos as weather gives Cerro Pelado firefighters a break
- Senate unanimously approves extension of compensation program for sickened nuclear test participants, downwinders, uranium miners
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 17
Read Full Issue- NNSA makes early call to lock in Honeywell subsidiary to manage Sandia for five more years
- NNSA, Pentagon ‘sorting out’ pit needs; new pits are ‘a hedge,’ NNSA administrator says
- Delay looms for Surplus Plutonium Disposition, according to NNSA’s FY23 budget request
- COVID cases jumped among NNSA on-site workers in March
- New weapons executive officer at Los Alamos
- DOD taking resumes for new senior nuke post
- Correction
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 16
Read Full Issue- DOE cans proposed extension for incumbent Savannah River prime; issued in error, DOE says
- NM Gov. blasts DOE over lack of engagement on surplus plutonium disposition program
- NNSA rolling on with plans to shore up federal workforce
- Navy killing low-yield nuclear SLCM over cost concerns
- Air Force seeks $380 million boost for LRSO in 2023
- NNSA nonproliferation office consulting preparations for nuclear power in Mideast, Africa, Asia
- NNSA search for new Las Vegas campus underway
- Rad sources missing in Russian invasion, Ukrainian research chief says; defenders could use surplus detectors
- Round Up: Ribbon cutting at NNSA HQ west; HEPA equipment for Savannah River pit plant; NNSA in person in Vienna; More
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 15
Read Full Issue- Nuclear Fuel Services to start weapons-uranium work under sole-source NNSA contract
- Adams sworn in as head of NNSA defense programs in Washington
- New SLBM warhead begins budget ramp up in 2023
- NNSA review of nonproliferation office underway, agency says
- COVID in the courts: gov’t wants permission to enforce vax mandate for feds; contractor mandate headed for SCOTUS?
- Centerra lands security biz at DOE HQ
- Scientist says Sandia fired him in retaliation for questioning WIPP data
- Turkey briefly caused loss of power at Y-12
- DOE clears delivery of U.S. HALEU for Molybdenum-99 production
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 14
Read Full Issue- Adams confirmed by Senate to lead NNSA defense programs at headquarters
- Joint chiefs chairman boosts SLCM-N again in congressional hearings
- Centrus ticks off final big milestone in sole-source HALEU contract as DOE preps competition for follow-on
- Livermore, DOE EM attack demolition of old contaminated facilities
- Los Alamos Study Group sues NNSA over plutonium pits FOIA requests
- Big funding hike sought to help DNFSB fill staffing gaps
- Air Force dubs GBSD ‘LGM-35A Sentinel’
- DNFSB announces death of one early board member Crawford
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 13
Read Full Issue- NNSA seeks 60% boost for budget line that funds pits; eclipses expected increase for FY23
- WH teases Nuclear Posture Review in official one pager; no-first use a goner
- Centrus was to bring HALEU cascade to brink of operations this week
- 30 minutes with Jay Tilden: NNSA counterterrorism office talks aircraft procurement
- Round Up: NNSA at NNSS; Non-pro mission to IAEA wraps; Local Y-12 man a lifesaver; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 12
Read Full Issue- NA-10 nominee gets his hearing; supports review of pit program
- NNSA quits counting COVID cases among teleworkers
- Waste disposal exception okayed for S.C. plant that makes tritium rods
- Raises for some at Los Alamos
- Ice storm, power outage at Pantex delay non-essential arrives amid production upswing
- Round Up: Biden posture review sinks sole purpose; Fortenberry felony conviction; Nuke plant strikes in Ukraine a war crime?
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 11
Read Full Issue- NNSA extends prime contractor for Pantex, Y-12 amid controversy about sites’ future management
- New W93 deets but no pit updates in NNSA’s latest unclassified stockpile stewardship report
- Talks continue on Savannah River options, DOE panel says
- Maximum telework ends at DOE HQ; personnel return to offices
- Familiar nuke names nab spots on Congress’ new strategic posture commission
- S.C. Lawmakers Unsatisfied With Their Share of Plutonium Settlement in State Budget
- Fed review of RLUOB recategorization in May
- Small businesses get small window to buck for NNSA construction support contract
- Longtime congressional, DOE staffer Davis is Granholm’s new staff chief
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 10
Read Full Issue- NNSA budget up in omnibus; prohibitions against B83, sea-launched W80-4 gone
- NNSA can’t spend its way to plutonium pit goal, STRATCOM commander tells senators
- Centrus has another profitable year; downplays worries over Russian uranium
- MFFF contractor settles fraud case with feds
- Impending Retirement Prompts NNSA Search for New Senior Project Management Exec for HQ
- Removal of ‘scary’ asbestos-laden Biology Complex, clears way for Y-12 lithium project
- IAEA looking into reports power back at Chernobyl after blackout
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 09
Read Full Issue- Current, former NNSA IT officials at center of conflict-of-interest dispute that derailed Pantex/Y-12 award
- HASC Chair says defense budget increase inevitable; Minuteman II test canned
- STRATCOM commander was satisfied with U.S. nuclear posture on 5th day of Russian war with Ukraine
- Leonardo AW139 will replace NNSA’s air sipping helicopters
- Watts Bar 2, one of two tritium producers, starts outage to replace steam generators
- DUF6 work resuming at Paducah Site, Portsmouth to follow
- Los Alamos considers hosting solar power project
- Round Up: S1 Warns on Captured Nuclear Plant in Ukraine; Carlsbad Mayor Cool With Diluted Plutonium at WIPP; Leadership Changes at Longenecker; More
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 08
Read Full Issue- NNSA Review of Pantex/Y-12 Contract Award Suspect, Losing Bidder Claims
- NNSA Procurement Honcho Raines Plans to Retire in June
- Fluor Records Net Loss in 2021 But DOE Biz Does Well; CEO Says Pantex/Y-12 Award Will Stand
- BWXT Boosts Earnings, Remains Rosy on Protest of Pantex/Y-12 Award
- Omicron Trough? Enterprise-Wide NNSA COVID Cases Drop 70% in February
- Sentencing Set for Husband-Wife Duo Who Sought to Sell Out Submarine Program
- Round Up: DOE-savvy Judge Passed Over; Dusting off U.K. Nuke Defense; Milestones Anniversaries in Actinide Chemistry
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 07
Read Full Issue- Senate Passes Short-term Budget Patch, Needs Biden’s Signature
- Deal Makes Clear DOE to ‘Fully Cooperate’ With DNFSB Fact Finding at Nuke Sites
- Livermore’s Nimble Series of Subcritical Experiments on Deck at NNSS
- Deadline Looming for Those Interested in New HALEU Contract at Portsmouth
- NNSA Considering Small Biz for Oversight of Planned DUF4 Line
- Classified Secrets, Cypto, PB Sandwich Get Ex-Naval Reactors Employee 12-Plus Years in Prison
- Counties Surrounding SRS Would Take Lion’s Share of DOE Plutonium Settlement Money, Under State Senate’s Plan
- DOE, Other Feds Embrace Pandemic Telecommuting, With Limits
- Net Earnings Dip at Jacobs But Revenue Remains Flat
- More States, Chamber of Commerce Claim Biden Went Too Far in Contract Vax Orders
- Amentum Closes on Purchase of Government Contractor PAE
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 06
Read Full Issue- NNSA Planned to Extend Management Contract at Nuke Production Sites Amid Controversy About Follow-On Award
- NNSA Performance Evaluations for Fiscal ‘21: COVID, Cost and Schedule
- NNSA Assessing COVID-Related Delays to Warhead Refurbs; Results in Spring
- Threefold COVID Increase in a Month as NNSA Rides Omicron Wave
- Admiral Asks, What is NNSA’s ‘Real Capacity’ for Pits and When Can Agency ‘Really’ Make Them
- NNSA Rethinking Mission of Nonproliferation Office; Review Imminent
- House Passes Mini-Continuing Resolution to Keep Agencies Open Until March 11
- Nevada Site Mining Project, Crucial for Subcritical’s Future, to be Baselined in June
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 05
Read Full Issue- Uranium Recovery Furnaces Set to Fire Up in 2029; Stopgap Expected to Operate This Year
- NNSA Considering Shape of Next Tritium Transport Contract
- Search is On, but No Contract Imminent for New High Explosives Supplier
- New Mexico Senator Luján Hospitalized With Stroke; Expected Out 4-6 Weeks
- NNSA Helo Sweeps Super Bowl Venue, With Replacement Rotary Craft on Way
- DNFSB Didn’t Get, or Need, COVID Funds to Keep Running in Fiscal 2021, Agency Says
- Local GOP Senators Open to DOE-Savvy High Court Candidate
- Round Up: Lord of the Board; Unofficial Classification Official; A Plumb Post; Snow Days
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 04
Read Full Issue- PF-4 Worker Had Internal Contamination After Another Apparent Glove Box Breach
- Summer Shipments of Downblended Plutonium to WIPP Still Possible, DOE Says
- Loss of British Nuke Biz a Blip in Lockheed’s 2021 Earnings
- Northop Boosted by GBSD Biz but Misses Analyst Estimates for 2021
- NNSA to Buy Leonardo Helicopters for Counterterrorsim Office
- Cooper, Chair of Armed Services Panel With Nuke Jurisdiction, to Leave Congress
- Progressive Lawmakers Lead Letter Writing Campaign Calling on Biden to Can Low-Yield Nukes
- Round Up: NIF in Nature; No First Use in SASC; Kastner in HII Top Spot; More
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 03
Read Full Issue- NNSA Not Yet Pulling Plug on Production Office Award to Fluor-led Team
- TVA Proposing Bigger Tritium Loads for Watts Bar Reactors
- Electrorefining Glove Boxes Going in at Y-12; Radioactive Work Expected in 2023
- Then There Was One: LANL is Last Big NNSA Nuke Site With a Vaccine Mandate
- DNFSB Staff Can Stick With Telecommute a While Longer
- Round Up: NNSA Marks Project Milestones at LANL, SRS, Says Thanks But No Thanks to GAO Rec
- Troy Wade, 87, Test Site Fixture, Defense Programs Head
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 02
Read Full Issue- Big Spike in Cases Across NNSA Enterprise During Omicron Surge; HQ Office Returns Pushed Back at DOE
- Adams Officially Nominated for Top NNSA Weapons Post
- Sandia, Too, Temporarily Drops Vax Mandate
- Extending 2021 Budgets Would Delay Flagship Air Force Nuke Programs, General Says
- Lamborn is New Top Republican on House Armed Services Panel With Nuclear Jurisdiction
- DOE Doles Out Uranium Supply, Disposal Contracts to SHINE for Mo-99 Production
- Final DOE Spent Fuel Railcar Off to Colorado for Testing
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 01
Read Full Issue- What to Watch in 2022: National Nuclear Security Administration
- Draft Solicitation Out for Contract With NNSA DUF4 Line
- More Confirmed COVID at NNSA Amid Omicron Surge; Most Sites Pause Vaccine Mandates
- Commercial Quantities of Domestic Mo-99 in Late ‘23, NNSA Says
- Discussions Scheduled for This Month About Upping Weapons Tritium Output From TVA Reactors
- McConnell Gets Promotion at NNSA HQ
- Major Nuclear Weapon States Reiterate Nonproliferation Treaty Goals
- Round Up: Granholm at Livermore; Nuclear Diplomat Returns; NNSA’s Up in the NDAA
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 25 No. 48
Read Full Issue- Losing Bidders Protest NNSA’s Award of Pantex/Y-12 Contract to Fluor-led Team
- Adams to be Nominated for Top NNSA HQ Weapons Job, Replacing Verdon
- Record Setting NIF Experiment Has NNSA Rethinking Pivot From Fusion
- DOE Cancels Plans for Centrus to Operate New Uranium Enrichment Cascade at Portsmouth
- Four Y-12 workers exposed to radiological contamination in two weeks
- Ex-Sandian Gets 21 Months for Company Credit Card Fraud
- Round Up: NDAA With Extra NNSA Authorization Passes Senate; New HALEU Program; Better Digs for Y-12 Development Org
- Opinion, Frank Klotz, Former NNSA Administrator: False Narrative About NNSA Program Management Poisons Relationship With DOD
- Publication Notice
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 25 No. 47
Read Full Issue- At Least One NNSA Contractor Suspends COVID Vaccine Mandate After Federal Judge’s Ruling
- DOE Staff Could Return On-Site by Mid-February, Re-entry Memo Says
- Compromise NDAA Okays NNSA to Spend $500B More Than Requested
- F-35 Nuke Cert, GBSD Warhead Test Launch on Track, AF General Says; Announcement Coming on GBSD Rename
- Hinderstein Sworn in As Head of NNSA Nonproliferation
- DNFSB Charts January Return to Office; Appoints Resident Inspector for Savannah River
- Michigan Company Wins Mo-99 Award From NNSA
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 25 No. 46
Read Full Issue- NNSA Finishes First B61-12 Gravity Bomb
- Debriefs About NNSA’s Pantex, Y-12 Award Scheduled for Next Week
- NNSA COVID Cases See Thanksgiving Bump; Vaccination Rates Rose in November at Some Sites
- Federal Funding Extension Averts Shutdown; Defense Nuclear Budgets Flat
- Hinderstein Confirmed as NNSA Nuclear Nonproliferation Head
- Sandia Swindler Seeks Probation, No Jail Time
- Pits, Tank Waste, Contractor Enforcement Stay on IG’s Watchlist for DOE in Fiscal ’22
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 25 No. 45
Read Full Issue- B61-12 First Production Unit ‘Nearing Completion,’ NNSA Says
- Columbia Could be Down to Two Months of Margin, Navy Program Exec Says
- Biden Administration Opposes Ban on ICBM Draw Down With Posture Review Pending
- NR Head to Industry on Australia Nuke Subs: Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You
- Australia Doesn’t Want ‘Domestic Nuclear Industry’ With Nuke Submarines, Ambassador Says
- Sandia Building With Power Sources, Aircraft Reliability Ops Reopened After Fire
- Biden Nominates DOE Artificial Intelligence Official To Run DHS S&T
- Round Up: Hruby Tours Enterprise, Cuts Ribbon at KC East; Senate NDAA Movement; Centrus Personnel; More