Corey Hinderstein, the Joe Biden administration’s nominee to run the National Nuclear Security Administration’sdefense nuclear nonproliferation office, cleared the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by a voice vote. The full Senate had not scheduled a confirmation vote for Hinderstein at deadline Friday. If confirmed, she would lead aroughly $2-billion-a-year portfolio that includes international and domestic programs to halt the spread of fissile materialand nuclear weapons technology, plus construction of facilities to deweaponize many metric tons of surplus, weapon-usable plutonium.
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