{"id":18205,"date":"2025-04-08T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nuclear-testing-not-advised-trumps-nominee-says-in-senate-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:00:28","slug":"nuclear-testing-not-advised-trumps-nominee-says-in-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nuclear-testing-not-advised-trumps-nominee-says-in-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Testing Not Advised, Trump\u2019s Nominee Says in Senate Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Brandon Williams, President Trump\u2019s pick to become the keeper of the nation\u2019s nuclear arsenal, testified on Tuesday that he would not recommend that Mr. Trump restart explosive testing of the deadly weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His statement, during <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/hearings\/to-consider-the-nominations-of-mr-bradley-d-hansell-to-be-under-secretary-of-defense-for-intelligence-and-security-mr-earl-g-matthews-to-be-general-counsel-of-the-department-of-defense-mr-dale-r-marks-to-be-assistant-secretary-of-defense-for-energy-installations-and-environment-and-honorable-brandon-m-williams-to-be-under-secretary-of-energy-for-nuclear-security\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a confirmation hearing<\/a> before the Senate Armed Services Committee, was unexpected. Other advisers to the administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/05\/science\/nuclear-testing-trump.html\" title=\"\">had proposed<\/a> that the president resume the test detonations for the sake of national security. The last such explosion in the United States was in 1992.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/17\/science\/trump-brandon-williams-nuclear-weapons.html\" title=\"\">nominated<\/a> Mr. Williams, a former Navy officer and one-term congressman from upstate New York, in January to serve as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs the nation\u2019s atomic weapons complex. It is a semiautonomous agency under the umbrella of the Energy Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The most prominent ally of Mr. Trump to call for a testing restart is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/18\/us\/politics\/national-security-adviser-robert-obrien.html\" title=\"\">Robert C. O\u2019Brien<\/a>, who served as his national security adviser from 2019 to 2021. Last summer in Foreign Affairs magazine, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/return-peace-strength-trump-obrien\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he urged<\/a> that Mr. Trump, if elected to a new term, resume the detonations, arguing that such a move would help the United States \u201cmaintain technical and numerical superiority to the combined Chinese and Russian nuclear stockpiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday during Mr. Williams\u2019s confirmation hearing, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aUlKOEefzE8\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Jacky Rosen, Democrat of Nevada<\/a>, argued pointedly against a restart, noting that her state hosted nearly 1,000 nuclear weapon tests, most of them underground, during the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She characterized her state as \u201cground zero\u201d for such tests and said that \u201cmillions of people and acres of land were contaminated by radiation\u201d during the Cold War, adding that \u201cwe must not ever return\u201d to such risky practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A resumption of testing, she said, \u201ccould ignite a dangerous, deadly and costly nuclear arms race for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She then asked Mr. Williams what his advice to Mr. Trump would be if he were to seek guidance \u201cabout returning to explosive nuclear tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During his reply, Mr. Williams said the decision \u201cwould certainly be above my pay grade\u201d were he confirmed. But Ms. Rosen cut in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWould you recommend explosive nuclear testing?\u201d she asked again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI would not advise testing, and I think we should rely on the scientific information,\u201d Mr. Williams said, referring to data gathered from nonnuclear explosive testing and supercomputer modeling carried out by physicists at N.N.S.A. labs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rosen then picked up the argument against testing from a Nevada point of view.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such activities, she said, would put \u201cmore than two million people at risk who live in Las Vegas and not to mention the downwinders \u2014 states going East.\u201d She referred to accidents in which earlier underground tests released gases into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Williams replied that his primary aim would be to deter the nation\u2019s foes. But he added that the environmental impact would, of course, \u201cbe very important and impactful to the citizens of Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think before those kinds of activities were to take place,\u201d he went on, \u201cparticularly so close to a populated area like Nevada, those would be very important considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Williams joined the U.S. Navy in 1991 and served as an officer on the U.S.S. Georgia, a nuclear submarine, before leaving the service as a lieutenant in 1996. A one-term congressman, he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230513064239\/https:\/brandonwilliams.house.gov\/about\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">represented<\/a> New York\u2019s 22nd Congressional District, an upstate area that includes the cities of Syracuse and Utica. A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/05\/nyregion\/new-york-house-mannion-williams.html\" title=\"\">Democrat, State Senator John Mannion<\/a>, defeated Mr. Williams in the November election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_from_senator_warren_to_brandon_williams_re_nnsa_qualifications.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">letter to Mr. Williams<\/a> on Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, expressed concerns about his lack of credentials and experience for the nuclear job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the Tuesday hearing, senators did not discuss Mr. Williams\u2019s professional background. Instead they asked questions about how he planned to retain a skilled work force at the nuclear agency <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/us\/politics\/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html\" title=\"\">given the Trump administration\u2019s firings and buyouts<\/a> of federal employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Repeatedly, Mr. Williams praised the agency\u2019s personnel and said he would \u201cspeak up\u201d for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Senate committee will now vote on Mr. Williams\u2019s nomination, which seems likely to pass muster, and to send it to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins 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