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

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