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173013
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Thank you for inviting me to discuss the Government Accountability Office (GAO) views on National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans for modernizing the nation’s nuclear security enterprise and aligning its efforts with the Defense Department to modernize delivery systems. These remarks should be viewed as helping the NNSA set itself up for success.
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ID:
107354
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ID:
121697
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2013.
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A key senator is challenging the scope and cost of the Obama administration's plan to extend the life of B61 nuclear bombs as the administration is seeking a significant increase for the program for fiscal year 2014.
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121699
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2013.
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The Energy Department's nuclear nonproliferation efforts would receive $2.1 billion under the Obama administration's fiscal year 2014 budget request, a drop of $161 million from fiscal year 2012.
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ID:
107389
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2011.
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Last year's bipartisan deal to increase funding for the U.S. nuclear arsenal, reached during the debate on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), is now being challenged by a new bipartisan deal to cut defense spending. As outgoing Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright told reporters July 14, "The challenge here is that we have to recapitalize all three legs [of the nuclear triad], and we don't have the money to do it."
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173020
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U.S. efforts to produce and maintain the plutonium cores of its nuclear weapons have endured a troubled history of safety and environmental problems since the first plutonium was produced in Hanford, Washington, in 1944. These hollow metal cores, each weighing several kilograms, enable the initial, explosive chain reaction in nuclear weapons.1 The last pit production facility at Rocky Flats was closed in 1989 due to widespread contamination and negligence. In the 1990s, pit production essentially stopped as arsenals declined. Although pit production was eventually relocated to Los Alamos National Laboratory, the lab struggled to produce more than a handful, if any, pits in any given year.
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115780
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107363
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2011.
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Thomas D'Agostino was sworn in on August 30, 2007, as the Department of Energy's undersecretary for nuclear security and as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semiautonomous agency within the department. On September 3, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that D'Agostino would continue to hold those positions. From February 2006 to August 2007, he served as the NNSA's deputy administrator for defense programs.
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