LIVE NOW: Senate Panel Reviews Nuclear Weapons Programs for 2026

LIVE NOW: Senate Panel Reviews Nuclear Weapons Programs for 2026

The Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing to receive testimony on the Department of Energy’s atomic energy defense activities and the Department of Defense nuclear weapons programs in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2026 and the Future Years Defense Program at 4:45 p.m. ET on May 20. Witnesses James J. McConnell, acting principal deputy administratorRoger A. Jarrell II, principal deputy assistant secretary f…

'Use Of Nuclear Weapons Becomes Dangerously Probable'

'Had this conflict gone on at the pace that it was continuing, the use of ground forces would have been inevitable.'

In Senate panel testimony, Jarrell cites liquid waste progress - ExchangeMonitor

The current head of the Department of Energy’s $8-billion Office of Environmental Management told a Senate Armed Services Committee panel this week progress is being made toward solidifying liquid radioactive waste left over from the Cold War and Manhattan Project. Roger Jarrell II, DOE’s principal deputy assistant secretary for Environmental Management (EM) also told the Senate Armed Forces’ s subcommittee on Strategic Forces that DOE nuclear c…