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Proposed House Spending Bill Whacks Next-Gen ICBMs, Bans Low Yield Nuke, Keeps Naval Reactor Research Alive

Proposed House Spending Bill Whacks Next-Gen ICBMs, Bans Low Yield Nuke, Keeps Naval Reactor Research Alive
U.S. Air Force airmen from the 576th Flight Test Squadron missile handling team install a cable raceway on an intercontinental ballistic missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 3, 2014. The missile handling team transports and handles ICBMs and performs operational check-out actions of the flight destruct ordnance package on the Minuteman III boosters. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/RELEASED)

The full House approved a 2020 spending bill that would slow development of the next-generation, nuclear-tipped, intercontinental ballistic missile, bar deployment of a low-yield nuclear missile, and provide more money than sought to research the use of low-enriched uranium as fuel for the nuclear Navy. The bill went through on an essentially party-line vote of 226 to 203. It fully funds almost all the nuclear modernization programs in the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, though it would provide…

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