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The National Nuclear Security Administration was created by Congressional action in 1999, [4] in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee spy scandal [5] [6] and other allegations that lax administration by the Department of Energy had resulted in the loss of U.S. nuclear secrets to China. [7]
The Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, in the United States Department of Energy, is the Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration.The National Nuclear Security Administration's responsibilities include designing, producing, and maintaining safe, secure and reliable nuclear weapons for the U.S. military, providing safe, militarily effective naval nuclear propulsion ...
The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) is a highly-specialized law enforcement division of the National Nuclear Security Administration within the United States Department of Energy. The OST's mission is to provide safe and secure transportation of nuclear weapons and components and special nuclear materials and conduct other missions in ...
US$135,000,000 National Nuclear Security Administration; Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1943 Triad National Security, LLC (Since 2018) [8] 14,150 US$3,648,000,000 Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1948 Honeywell International (since 2017) [9] 13,400 US$2,813,000,000 Livermore, California ...
The Protective Forces are recruited and employed by private companies, yet are trained, equipped, and under the operational command of Defense Nuclear Security, a program of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (two Protective Forces, those at the Savannah River Site and the Idaho National Laboratory, are under ...
The Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST), formerly known as the Nuclear Emergency Search Team, is a team of scientists, technicians, and engineers operating under the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA). NEST is the umbrella designation that encompasses all DOE/NNSA radiological and nuclear ...
But it also includes Bolton, the from Trump national security adviser who has become a staunch critic of the former and current president since leaving his first administration in 2019.
After the United States' 1992 moratorium on live nuclear testing, the Stockpile Stewardship Program was created in order to find a way to test, and maintain the nuclear stockpile. In response, the National Nuclear Security Administration began to simulate the nuclear warheads using supercomputers. As the stockpile ages, the simulations have ...