11.08.2023 - 19:42 [ Washington Post ]

We don’t need nuclear cruise missiles at sea

(August 9, 2023)

This month, as House and Senate conferees begin to iron out differences between the two chambers on a nearly $900 billion Pentagon spending bill for next fiscal year, both the House and Senate armed services committees want to place a new generation of nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles (known as SLCM-Ns) back on Navy vessels. That would be a mistake.