Representative Weldon, Pentagon spar over proposed Nuclear Strategy Commission in DOD bill From: Arms Control Today | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Kucia, Christine | Copyright Arms Control Association Sep 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

THE PENTAGON IS seeking to block an effort by Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) to form a Commission on Nuclear Strategy, which would offer recommendations on nuclear policy and military requirements to the secretary of defense as well as to both congressional armed services committees. In August, Weldon, the second-ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, lashed out at the Pentagon's decision to oppose his idea and suggested that the Pentagon's action might affect his future...

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