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GAO: Nuclear Weapons Agency Cut 11.9% of Its Federal Staff; Officials Say Some Oversight of Nuclear Material Security Was Scaled Back
The agency that builds and maintains America's nuclear weapons has its biggest workload since the Cold War. It also has 236 fewer federal employees than it did in early 2025. A new GAO report shows where the cuts landed, from nuclear engineers to field offices at Los Alamos and Nevada, and what NNSA officials told auditors about oversight of nuclear material security after one office lost about 40% of that staff.

Yossi Schmidt
8 hours ago3 min read
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