74 Transition Team Questions To DOE - ZERO Questions On Nuclear Weapons, Policy, Programs
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Sure, they’re looking for any excuse to tear down renewable energy sources and play up oil and gas. Sure, they’re have their blacklist for scientists and bureaucrats ready and itching for names. But there’s one rather large thing they missed.
A quick look at the Department of Energy's web site is enough to show that it contains a section called the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The NNSA is …
“responsible for ensuring the integrity and safety of the nation’s nuclear weapons, advancing nuclear nonproliferation and promoting international nuclear safety.”
During the campaign, Donald Trump made multiple references to the state of America’s nuclear arsenal. Statements which often conflated the idea of aging silo-based missiles with the whole nuclear triad—statements that neatly matched the pervasive alt-white statements that President Obama was allowing our nuclear weapons to fall apart, when in fact Obama instituted a massive plan to update and improve the arsenal (though he would like to scale back that update).
But now, given a chance to ask the agency that takes care of America’s nukes about the state of the arsenal, Trump’s team asked … nothing. No questions about the stockpile of material used for bomb making, despite the chest-pounding during the campaign over Russia buying a Canadian company with interest in US uranium reserves. No questions about nuclear counter-terrorism or the threat of nuclear proliferation.
No questions at all about the most central, critical function of the DOE.
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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/14/1610897/-The-questions-the-Trump-team-asks-show-they-don-t-know-what-the-Department-of-Energy-does#read-more
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