Caveat: Source is anonymous … But here is the link. You be the judge: [Trump dismisses head of NNSA- "unprecedented"]
Although the dept will still be effective in its primary role, it is puzzling that given his hoopla over making the American nukes bigglier, the folks who could best defend [and expand] the dept’s budget will be gone and thus no meaningful voice in front of congress for quite a few months…..
That’s just the first layer to Trump’s self-created nuclear problem. Even if he had prepared appointments to fill the soon-to-be vacant roles, how exactly they would go about fulfilling Trump’s repeated promises to “expand [U.S.] nuclear capacity” is another issue altogether.
Rosner noted that the Obama Administration has already essentially begun rebuilding the nuclear program, making Trump’s promised expansion “a perfect example of Trump basically being clueless.”
“He didn’t understand that we have a refurbishment program,” Rosner said. “He didn’t understand that, under Obama, that we’d rebuilt the entire production complex. So exactly what he would mean by ‘strengthening the nuclear program,’ it’s a bit of a mystery. I don’t know what he’s talking about. We’ve done it already.”
[Gonna have to get used to seeing my personal anxiety meter needle pegged at “maximum”]