And I think, again, without speaking to individuals, we’re certainly doing that,” chief Pentagon spokesperson JOHN KIRBY told reporters on Wednesday when asked about Tomero’s ouster. “It’s natural with any new administration, this one’s not excepted, that we would want to reevaluate the organizational structure and make changes where we think is appropriate to support the secretary’s priorities. The Defense Department insists Tomero was nothing more than a casualty of a reorganization, leaving no space for her as her duties were moving to another office. “People with very traditional views of nuclear weapons policy did not want someone in charge of the Nuclear Posture Review who might think differently about those issues.” “Her appointment was something that people were immediately resistant to,” JEFFREY LEWIS, a professor and nuclear weapons expert at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies and host of the podcast Arms Control Wonk, told POLITICO. One of them was LEONOR TOMERO, a leading voice for nuclear restraint on Capitol Hill and in the think tank community, who was appointed to oversee the Nuclear Posture Review that will set the administration’s nuclear weapons policy and strategy.īut officials with more traditional views on nuclear weapons, who promote a more hawkish nuclear agenda to include modernizing the land, sea and airborne legs of America’s nuclear arsenal, did not take kindly to Tomero’s progressive ideology, 11 current and former defense officials, as well as others with insight into the debate, told our own LARA SELIGMAN and BRYAN BENDER (with an assist from your host). The forced dismissal of a top Pentagon nuclear official could mean curtains for President JOE BIDEN’s nuclear agenda.īiden installed national security officials intent on negotiating new arms control treaties and curtailing nuclear weapons spending. Send tips | Subscription options here | Email Alex | Email Quint Welcome to National Security Daily, your guide to the global events roiling Washington and keeping the administration up at night.Īs we continue our 10th week here at NatSec Daily, we’re soliciting your feedback on what you like/dislike about the newsletter, what you want to see more or less of, and anything else you think your hosts should know. The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming approaches Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., in 2008.
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