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...at least 27 engineers, 13 program or project analysts, 12 program or project managers, six budget analysts or accountants, five physicists or scientists, as well, and key staff that builds reactors for nuclear submarines have left the National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal.
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.
Since the last year of the first Trump administration, the agency has been desperately trying to build up its staff to handle the added workload. Though it was still hundreds of employees short of what it had said it needed, it had edged up to about 2,000 workers by January.
Now, with the Trump administration’s buyouts and firings, the agency’s trajectory has gone from one of painstaking growth to retraction.Hegseth ordered a unilateral halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia and now Elmo is undermining America’s nuclear deterrence. There's no way on God's Green Earth these guys aren't in the pocket of Vladimir Putin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/fed... 