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U.S. Nuclear Arms Chief Warns Against Leaks of Secret Information

The email sent to atom bomb officials by Brandon Williams highlights the managerial challenge faced by the former one-term congressman.

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Brandon Williams, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has no deep technical roots or experience in running the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, unlike many of his predecessors.
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The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs.

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Technicians in an underground test site in Nevada secured the door before execution of the 2021 Red Sage-Nightshade experiment, a subcritical nuclear test.
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