Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
In disassembling the nuclear weapons, do you want to do some of that in Nevada or do you want to do all that at Pantex?
We're not only reducing the number of nuclear warheads, but we're going to reduce the actual types of nuclear warheads.
Originally, under START II, there was a general understanding that once we got to START III, they would take up the tactical nuclear weapons.
I would be surprised, Senator Vitter, if it were said in that isolated context, because I've had lengthy discussions with General Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on this very issue, and I think he has every confidence to…
General Alston, you've had to work overtime to straighten out the loose nukes and all of that. Have you got it under control?
Part of our labs need to help out the intelligence community to support the analysis of foreign nuclear capabilities.
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, an accelerator facility that produces protons for a variety of scientific and weapons research, was supposed to have an upgrade beginning in fiscal year 2010, but the upgrade was not funded.





