As many as 2,000 Energy Department employees overall were laid off in the purge. The NNSA has 1,800 workers in facilities across the country and relies on about 55,000 contractors.

NNSA is heavy on non-political employees to ensure stability and continuity across administrations as it manages the nuclear stockpile. And if the most senior staff are replaced with political ...

NNSA has a total of 1800 staff at facilities around the country. The only probationary staffers exempt from the Thursday-night firings were those who work at its Office of Secure Transportation ...

WASHINGTON − The Trump administration rescinded firings of hundreds of employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the nation's arsenal of nuclear weapons, in a ...

Trump nukes nominee questioned on DOGE cuts, nuclear weapons testing Former GOP Rep. Brandon Williams, nominated to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, stands to inherit a hollowed ...

The NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Despite having the words "National" and "Security" in its ...

This incident follows mass layoffs throughout federal agencies. In addition to the NNSA layoffs, the Department of Homeland Security also saw significant cuts, with more than 400 employees let go.

A mainstay of the air leg of the United States’ nuclear Triad, the B61 is described by the NNSA as the longest-serving and most versatile weapon in the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

Managers at NNSA received a list of fired employees who needed to be recalled after 6 p.m. Friday, one person said, and NNSA officials worked through the weekend to make contact with the fired ...

Some of the fired NNSA employees worked on areas that aren't priorities to the Trump administration such as energy efficiency and climate change, according to the AP, but others dealt with nuclear ...