Trump To Nominate New NBC Leader As White House Eyes Nuke Tests

Trump To Nominate New NBC Leader As White House Eyes Nuke Tests
Trump To Nominate New NBC Leader As White House Eyes Nuke Tests

Today’s announcement of the administration’s “intent” to nominate Polakowski, a retired Army two-star general who worked on WMD issues throughout his career, comes the day after a senior Pentagon official acknowledged that the US could resume nuclear testing “relatively rapidly,” should the decision be made.

All’s Well With The Nation’s Nukes — In Theory

Yesterday, the House-Senate conference on the National Defense Authorization Act took steps to strengthen oversight of America’s nuclear arsenal, including reforms at the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration and new restrictions on the administration decommissioning more nuclear weapons. But there’s a deeper issue of whether our nukes still work as designed in the first…