Judging by the nil response, it looks like no-one else believes this trash either..
I liked the bit where they sacked huge numbers of nuclear weapons custodians before doing a reversal.
Among those on the receiving end of the probationary-employee bazooka shot were hundreds employed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). On Thursday, they found themselves suddenly out of work. For some, ominous indicators preceded receipt of official termination -- unable to access email or finding their badges didn't open their office doors on Friday. According to anonymous sources who spoke to AP, upwards of 350 probationary NNSA employees were fired.
Though the agency supervises production of new nuclear warheads and maintains existing ones, the NNSA isn't part of the Department of Defense, but rather the Department of Energy, where a total of about 2,000 probationary employees were targeted. About 30% of NNSA's share of the terminations hit the DoE's Pantex Plant, which is responsible for "assembly, disassembly, testing, and evaluation of nuclear weapons in support of the NNSA stockpile stewardship program." The agency is overseeing a multi-year modernization program encompassing seven types of warheads, as part of a nuclear weapon overhaul program that has a disturbing price tag of $1.7 trillion.
Apparently realizing its ax had slashed through an unintended target, the Trump administration raced to negate the terminations. On Friday night, acting NNSA director Teresa Robbins fired off a memo rescinding the terminations for hundreds of fired probationary employees -- minus 28 who were excluded from the reprieve. The memo obtained by AP read:
At least initially, the NNSA was having trouble tracking down some fired-and-unfired employees. "We do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel,” NNSA officials wrote in an email sent to other employees, seeking their help in getting the word out via their "personal contact emails."
Critics leapt on the debacle. “The DOGE people are coming in with absolutely no knowledge of what these departments are responsible for,” Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, told AP. "They don’t seem to realize that it’s actually the department of nuclear weapons more than it is the Department of Energy.”
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Comrade Stalin
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