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.

As Donald Trump has demanded the mass firing of hundreds of workers at an agency that manages our nuclear stockpile.

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