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Aspiring HASC Chair Has Three-Point Plan for Nuke Policy in Next Congress; Eyes ICBMs

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

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Aspiring HASC Chair Has Three-Point Plan for Nuke Policy in Next Congress; Eyes ICBMs

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

The aspiring chair of the House Armed Services Committee said here Wednesday he wants to scrap the Trump administration’s nuclear posture review, whip up a multilateral intermediate-range nuclear forces-style treaty, and take a run a making no-first-use the nuclear law of the land.Speaking here at the Ploughshares Fund’s “Future of U.S. Nuclear Policy” conference, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) enumerated his three-point nuclear policy plan for the 116th Congress set to gavel in on Jan. 3:“Totally redo the nuclear posture review…

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