The article highlights the Trump administration’s firing of Department of Energy staff responsible for overseeing the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile. According to sources, the administration dismissed these employees without understanding their critical role. Wired executive editor Brian Barrett, in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, describes the move as “cutting for cutting’s sake.” The administration is now in the process of rehiring the nuclear stockpile workers to address the potential repercussions of their abrupt removal.