Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 25 No. 31
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August 06, 2021

NNSA, Lab Official Say Congress Shouldn’t Change Legal Deadlines on Pit Production

By Dan Leone

ALEXANDRIA — Congress should not relax legal deadlines to produce plutonium pits this decade, even though the National Nuclear Security Administration has acknowledged it won’t meet at least one of them,nuclear-weapons managers here said this week. “I would…

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