NDAA Heads to Trump's Desk With MOX, Cruise Missile, LANL Pit Measures

摘要

Congress this week sent a defense authorization bill to President Donald Trump’s desk that would authorize research into a new nuclear-capable cruise missile, allow construction of a controversial plutonium processing facility the administration wants to cancel, and make it harder to move plutonium pit production from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The House approved a unified fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, and the Senate followed suit Thursday. The bill, which Trump had not signed at deadline Friday for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor, reconciles the differing versions of the annual defense policy proposal the House and Senate produced over the summer.