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Cancellation of Nuclear Cruise Missile Puts Politics First

Cancellation of Nuclear Cruise Missile Puts Politics First
President Joe Biden meets with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, and Department of Defense leaders, not pictured, to discuss national security priorities, in the State Dining Room of the White House on Oct. 26, 2022. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
John Rossomando
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Russia threatens Ukraine and Europe with nuclear blackmail. China ramps up its nuclear program. Yet the Biden administration’s revised nuclear strategy (pdf) found in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) pretends it’s the year 2000 and America is the only nuclear-armed superpower. It eliminates the Sea-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile (SLCM-N), which President Joe Biden called a “bad idea” in 2019 during the presidential campaign.
John Rossomando
John Rossomando
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John Rossomando is a senior analyst for defense policy at the Center for Security Policy and served as senior analyst for counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years.
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