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Monday, March 17, 2025

Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America's nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.

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All's well that ends.

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-17 06:12 PM | Reply

Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.

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Yes, it does that. Plus the sabotage of US defenses in the service of a hostile power.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-17 06:26 PM | Reply

More from the cited article...

... In the past six weeks, the agency, just one relatively small outpost in a federal work force that President Trump and his top adviser Elon Musk aim to drastically pare down, has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers -- all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation.

The nuclear agency, chronically understaffed but critically important, is the busiest it has been since the Cold War. It not only manages the nation's 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal -- a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles. ...

Engaged in top-secret work, tucked away in the Energy Department, the agency typically stays below the public radar. But it has emerged as a headline example of how the Trump administration's cuts, touted as a cure-all for supposed government extravagance and corruption, are threatening the muscle and bone of operations that involve national security or other missions at the very heart of the federal government's responsibilities. ...



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-17 06:53 PM | Reply

Hegseth Addresses Strengthening Military by Cutting Excess, Refocusing DOD Budget (February 20, 2025)
www.defense.gov

... "Ever since I've taken this position, the only thing I've cared about is doing right by our service members -- soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and guardians," Hegseth said." In short, we want the biggest, most badass military on the planet." ...

... and how does crippling our future nuclear defenses help his desire for "...the biggest, most badass military on the planet...." ?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-17 06:58 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Ever since I've taken this position, the only thing I've cared about is doing right by our service members -- soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and guardians," Hegseth said. ...

What has Sec Hegseth said about the crippling of the VA buy DOGE?

Or does he seem to care only about actively-serving members of the military?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-17 07:00 PM | Reply

Meanwhile, the becquerels will quietly tick up unnoticed until containment becomes impossible. I won't speak for any of you, but I'm not all that keen on growing a 3rd arm or creating culinary recipes for glow-in-the-dark vegetables.

#6 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-17 08:39 PM | Reply

@#6 ... becquerels ...

Had to look that one up ...

Becquerel
en.wikipedia.org

... The becquerel (/bk'rl/; symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI). One becquerel is defined as an activity of one per second, on average, for aperiodic activity events referred to a radionuclide. For applications relating to human health this is a small quantity,[1] and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used.[2]

The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity.[3] ...


Thank-you. Your comment taught me something this evening.

thx.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-17 08:51 PM | Reply

You're welcome. I confess I had to look it up to be sure I spelled it correctly.

#8 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-17 09:20 PM | Reply

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