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Senators Urge Obama To Cancel Long Range Standoff Weapon

Pat Host

Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

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Senators Urge Obama To Cancel Long Range Standoff Weapon

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Ten Democratic senators urged President Barack Obama to cancel the Air Force’s Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon before he leaves office in January, according to a letter obtained by Defense Daily.The senators urge Obama to scale back plans to construct “unneeded” new nuclear weapons and delivery systems, LRSO in particular. The senators also urge reforms to United States nuclear posture, including adopting no-first-use of nuclear weapons and canceling launch-on-warning plans to increase the time available to the commander-in-chief to consider…

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