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The Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago — it didn’t go well
The Army called the reactor portable, even at 330 tons, because it was built from pieces that each fit in a C-130 cargo plane.
By Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Whoops! Canadian senator accidentally revealed European locations of US nuclear weapons
“Do we really want Donald Trump to use nuclear weapons from our territory at the push of a button?”
By Jon Simkins
House passes $983 billion spending package 226-203, bucking White House
The Democratic-controlled House passed a $983 billion appropriations package that aims to fund national security at $17 billion below the White House request.
By Joe Gould
US House to vote on low-yield nukes and transgender troops this week
The Trump administration’s limits on transgender service members and new low-yield nuclear weapons are up for debate this week over 2020 spending legislation.
By Joe Gould
House panel advances $733B defense budget bill over GOP objections
In a break with tradition, most Republicans on the panel opposed the measure over concerns about funding totals.
Low-yield nukes lose partisan fight in House committee’s NDAA markup
Republicans lost a series of votes in the Democratic-led House Armed Services Committee.
By Joe Gould
Stop worrying and love the bomb: PODCAST
Defense Nerds podcast for June 10, 2019: Nuclear weapons fight, Trump's transgender comments, military painting fences.
House panel would bar low-yield nuke deployment, Open Skies Treaty withdrawal
A proposal released June 3 would bar the deployment of a new low-yield nuclear warhead.
By Joe Gould
US halts recent practice of disclosing nuclear weapon total
The Trump administration has halted, without explanation, the recent U.S. government practice of disclosing the current size of the nuclear weapons stockpile.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Smith: Trim budget fat in America’s nuclear triad
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith says he's open to cutting back quantities of nuclear arms instead of one leg of the nation’s nuclear triad.
By Joe Gould
The Pentagon wants mobile nuclear reactors for FOBs, but some scientists say that’s ‘naive’
Demonstrations of the technology are possible by 2021.
By Todd South