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Defense
Deficit committee should cut nuclear arms, lawmaker says
Edward Markey and 64 other House Democrats are calling for a major atomic-arsenal rollback.
Defense
Senate holds up nominee for State Department nonproliferation bureau
The office manages efforts to halt the proliferation and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.
Defense
Homeland Security cancels troubled radiation detector effort
The agency spent roughly $230 million over five years attempting to develop and field the monitoring system.
Defense
House approves $1 billion cut to nuclear agency funding
Most of the reductions would impact NNSA's nonproliferation and weapons accounts.
Defense
Appropriators back $1 billion decrease in nuclear agency budget
Figure is $1.1 billion below Obama's initial $11.7 billion request for NNSA.
Defense
U.S. needs effective counter-WMD strategy, Defense official says
President Obama has identified countering WMD threats as a top national security goal.
Defense
House panel cuts more than $1 billion from nuclear agency budget
Subcommittee agrees to $1.1 billion less than Obama's initial request for U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration.
Defense
Nuclear agency releases strategic plan for next decade
Nonproliferation and modernization of arsenal top list of priorities.
Defense
Obama administration readying to make case for test ban treaty
Officials say the bargaining in Senate could intensify over the coming months.
Oversight
Nuclear agency expected to stay open during any government shutdown
Contractors and federal employees would continue to work, Energy Department says.
Defense
Lawmakers issue bipartisan call to protect nuclear agency funding
Panel members suggest agency budget is a national security issue.
Defense
Senior lawmakers wary of nuclear agency budget increase
Obama budget would give agency a 5 percent funding hike to $11.8 billion.
Defense
Obama seeks more money for NNSA, less for key nonproliferation efforts
Nuclear security agency is in line for a nearly $2 billion increase over its enacted fiscal 2010 budget.
Defense
White House, scientists discuss biological threats
Meeting could be the first in a series of talks designed to inform the administration's evolving strategy on bioterrorism.
