Setting the Terms

In April, around the time the Pentagon approved the terms of reference for the Quadrennial Defense Review, Pentagon spokesman Bob Mehal said the department had also approved similar guidance for the Nuclear Posture Review.

Turns out that was incorrect.

The NPR TOR was actually still in staffing at the time -- and it took weeks more to weave its way to bureaucratic approval. But Mehal now tells us the NPR TOR was finally signed on May 13.