U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk purged less than 50 workers from the agency that maintains the country's nuclear weapons arsenal, the Department of Energy said on Sunday, after far wider layoffs there were suddenly rescinded,

The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the

Energy Department scrambles to rehire nuclear bomb experts fired in major DOGE screw up: Reports - DOGE apparently didn’t understand the workers’ role, or how important they are to national security,

The dismissed employees were responsible for designing and maintaining the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons, drawing alarm from national security experts.

About 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy were laid off, including hundreds of employees from the office that oversees the nuclear stockpile