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The White House on Tuesday officially nominated Marvin Adams to succeed Charles Verdon as the top weapons official at National Nuclear Security Administration headquarters in Washington, according to an evening press release. The White House sent Adams’ nomination to the Senate nearly a month after announcing its intention to make him the next deputy administrator for defense programs. The National Nuclear Security Administration is the semiautonomous, $20-billion-a-year Department of Energy agency in charge of nuclear weapons maintenance and modernization. As…
