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Nuclear Modernization

Arms Control, Modernization Consensus Gone, Modernization Architect Says

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021

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Arms Control, Modernization Consensus Gone, Modernization Architect Says

Last decade’s bipartisan consensus, that arms-control diplomacy and the refurbishment of the nuclear arsenal should walk hand-in-hand, does not exist anymore, according to a former Republican Senator who helped forge the consensus. “Right now, we do not have the consensus that ostensibly existed back in 2010,” former Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.) said Wednesday during a webcast hosted by the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Kyl spoke a few hours before the Biden administration, which is conducting a closed-door…

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