
The Obama Administration and Nuclear Weapons Policy
The fledgling Obama Administration has already made two attempts to change things in the nation's troubled nuclear weapons establishment.
The week following the Inauguration, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) told the Departments of Energy and Defense to assess the pros and cons of taking the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which manages the weapons complex, out of the Energy Department and placing it in the Department of Defense. The Administration