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Nuclear Modernization

Senate Appropriators Want to Keep Interoperable Warhead

Tuesday, May 29th, 2018

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Senate Appropriators Want to Keep Interoperable Warhead

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

Senate appropriators favor continuing sustaining an Obama-era program to create a so-called interoperable nuclear warhead that could fly on future Air Force and Navy missiles — a program their House counterparts have proposed canceling.That is according to the detailed bill report accompanying the fiscal 2019 energy and water bill the Senate Appropriations Committee approved late last week.The panel proposed $53 million in the budget year starting Oct. 1 for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to continue its work on…

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