The Pentagon is asking fiscal year 2004 defense authorization conferees to drop a provision included in the House bill that would establish a commission on nuclear weapons policy. Setting up such a panel would be unnecessary and counterproductive, given work already done by the Bush administration in its Nuclear Posture Review, the Defense Department states in a July 23 appeal to authorizers, who will resume their conference on the House and Senate defense bills after the August recess. In particular,...
