Most NNSA Nuke Programs Funded at or Above Request in Final 2020 Approps Package

摘要

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration appears set to get all the money it wants for the current budget year,and a little more, including some $710 million to start work on a controversial two-state plutonium pit complex intended tobring a new nuclear-weapon mission to South Carolina.A compromise budget bill that passed through Congress this week also includes the NNSA's requested $10 million forbuilding and delivering remaining W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic-missile warheads, and the requested $52million to keep the megaton-capable B83 gravity bomb in war-ready shape. That ends, for now, a debate about twopolitically contentious recommendations from the Donald Trump administration’s 2018 Nuclear Posture Review.