Cuts to nuclear security workforce were made on Thursday – but agency can’t find workers to offer them their jobs back
The US agency charged with overseeing nuclear weapons is looking to contact workers who were fired on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s federal cost-cutting measures, but are now needed back.
“Please work with your supervisors to send this information to people’s personal contact emails,” the notice added. The 2022 US nuclear posture review said the US nuclear arsenal “is intended to complicate an adversary’s entire decision calculus, including whether to instigate a crisis, initiate armed conflict, conduct strategic attacks using non-nuclear capabilities, or escalate to the use of nuclear weapons on any scale”.
“We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually, hopefully, much more productive,” he said.As of September 2023, the US maintains 3,748 nuclear warheads, a decrease from the stockpile of 22,217 nuclear warheads in 1989 and 31,255 in 1966, according to the Department of Energy.
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