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 matter.

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,

DOGE abruptly terminated hundreds of nuclear weapons specialists at the National Nuclear Security Administration only to scramble to bring them back days later.

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