President Joe Biden’s $863 billion Fiscal Year 2024 [FY24] defense budget request includes $23.8 billion for the United States Department of Energy [DOE] to produce nuclear weapons and manage the nation’s strategic stockpile and $37.7 billion for the Pentagon to operate its “nuclear enterprise.” That “nuclear enterprise” is America’s land-air-sea “triad” strategic force posture—intercontinental ballistic…