Nuclear Weapons Council Needs More DOE Influence, Ex-NNSA Boss Says

摘要

On Wednesday, as Congress prepared for final negotiations on a must-pass bill that could increase the Pentagon’s sayover civilian nuclear-weapons programs, the former head of those programs said the defense department needs less, notmore, sway over such matters.The Pentagon and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Security Administration (NNSA), a semiautonomous DOE agency devoted to nuclear-weapons stewardship, compare notes about nuclear weapons procurementin the meetings of the interagency Nuclear Weapons Council.