Obama Pledges $80 Billion For DOE Weapons Complex Through 2020

摘要

In what is widely seen as a carrot for Senate Re-rnpublicans to ratify the new U.S.-Russia arms control agreement, President Obama last week pledged billions of dollars in additional spending through fiscal year 2020 to "sustain and modernize" the Energy Department's aging nuclear weapons complex and refurbish the country's Cold War-era warheads.rnObama's promise to allocate a total of $80 billion over the next decade to build new weapons production facilities and extend the life of warheads responds to repeated warnings from congressio-rnnal Republicans that they will not support the agree-rnment with Russia unless the president demonstrates a significant commitment to rebuilding the nuclear weapons program managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous DOE agency.