Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬May 27
Trump Wants to Double Production of New #NuclearWeapon Cores
The new proposed budget slashes money for environmental cleanup and calls to double the production of cores for #nuclear weapons.
The budget request follows a leaked National Nuclear Security Administration (#NNSA) memo calling on America’s nuclear scientists to prototype new kinds of nukes and to double plutonium pit production from 30 to 60 triggers a year.
https://www.404media.co/trump-2027-budget-nuclear-weapons/
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Trump Wants to Double Production of New Nuclear Weapon Cores

The new proposed budget slashes money for environmental cleanup and calls to double the production of cores for nuclear weapons.

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Analyst207Apr 25

Trump Urged to Extract Nuclear Weapons from DOE Oversight

It's time to rethink the oversight of US nuclear weapons - experts Franklin C. Miller and Frank A. Rose argue that stripping the National Nuclear Security Administration from the Department of Energy and making it an independent agency could restore clarity, speed, and accountability to nuclear stewardship. This bold move could be the…

https://osintsights.com/trump-urged-to-extract-nuclear-weapons-from-doe-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#NationalSecurity #NuclearWeapons #DepartmentOfEnergy #Nnsa #UnitedStates

Trump Urged to Extract Nuclear Weapons from DOE Oversight

Remove NNSA from DOE to boost US nuclear security clarity and accountability, experts urge Trump to take action now on nuclear weapons oversight reform.

OSINTSights
Show threadNonilexNov 14, 2025

It’s the latest sign of fallout from #Trump’s October social media post instructing the Department of #Defense to start testing #NuclearWeapons “because of other countries testing programs.”

But #NNSA, which falls under the Department of #Energy, is the federal agency responsible for building & testing #bombs & maintaining the #nuclear stockpile, not the Defense Department.

#idiocracy

PiaOct 30, 2025
Where in the US Nuclear and AI may converge www.thecooldown.com/green-busine... Shameful and dangerous proposals. #natsec #energy #water #NNSA atomic power weapons radioactive waste cancer health risks 😡

US officials launch major new ...
US officials launch major new program that's being compared to Manhattan Project: 'Will have an impact on national security'

The National Nuclear Security Administration plans to power massive new artificial intelligence data centers on federal sites in South Carolina and Tennessee.

The Cool Down
PiaOct 30, 2025
LANL "selected HPE and NVIDIA as partners on two new supercomputers to be built, delivered & installed in the coming years" www.lanl.gov/media/news/1... "fundamental science research & artificial intelligence applications across the National Nuclear Security Administration complex" #NNSA AI 👁️ #law

Los Alamos National Laboratory...
PiaOct 30, 2025
"According to the sources, the remaining staff continues to work under conditions in which President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding that the Pentagon receive faster delivery timelines for modernized weapons from the #NNSA." news.am/eng/news/912... #natsec #TPNW #law

CNN: US could lose years in nu...
CNN: US could lose years in nuclear weapons development due to government shutdown

As safely pausing work with nuclear materials is a complex process...

PiaOct 30, 2025
"To maintain and reproduce an arsenal of mass death and thanatotic desire, you need people of suspended moral principles. “Oversight matters,” Plonski remarks." ~ Thursday, 30 October 2025 Opinion: Binoy Kampmark www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25... Subscription free for personal use. #NNSA #natsec #TPNW

Furloughing Workers For Armage...
PiaOct 30, 2025
"National Nuclear Security Agency furloughed 1,400 employees due to the ongoing government shutdown. About 400 #NNSA employees will continue working without pay, while contractors will be paid through the end of the month." www.aip.org/fyi/the-week... #natsec

THE WEEK OF OCT 27, 2025
THE WEEK OF OCT 27, 2025

- NNSA issues its first-ever shutdown furloughs - Duffy eyes permanent leadership of NASA - Recent grads exempt from new H-1B fee

AIP
PiaOct 30, 2025
"While all of the agency’s employees originally continued working despite the shutdown, on Oct. 20, 2025, #NNSA furloughed 1,400 employees—the majority of its workforce and the first time it has ever done so during a shutdown." ourpublicservice.org/blog/federal... #natsec #law
Arthur Zork (They/CyberNinja)Oct 23, 2025
Are the #Nuclear Scientists managing America's large #nuclearweapon & energy stockpile at the National Nuclear Security Administration (#NNSA) "essential"? Because the Republican's POTUS just decided to furlough them all for the first time in American history during their second longest #governmentshutdown so far & this does not sound Great...
https://marylandmatters.org/2025/10/20/this-has-never-happened-before-national-nuclear-security-administration-furloughs-1400/
‘This has never happened before’: National Nuclear Security Administration furloughs 1,400 - Maryland Matters

The National Nuclear Security Administration furloughed 1,400 employees Monday as part of the federal shutdown, with NNSA doing budget “gymnastics” to keep contractors on-site at critical facilities.

Maryland Matters