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Commentary: Align US Strategic Forces to New Russian Realities

By David J. Trachtenberg

December 7, 2015

...All three legs of the US strategic nuclear Triad need to be upgraded. This means replacing our current Minuteman ICBMs, Ohio-class strategic submarines and aging bomber force. As a recent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments report pointed out, the costs of nuclear modernization are certainly affordable and represent a small percentage of the overall defense budget; those who seek to cut these programs to save money, the report concludes, are on a “hunt for small potatoes.”...

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