
The Biden administration will start its nuclear posture review soon and work on it into the fall, there’s no new Minuteman III life-extension study at the Pentagon and bad welds on some missile tubes won’t delay delivery of the first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, witnesses testified late Wednesday before a Senate Armed Services panel. At the outset of the Nuclear Posture Review, the administration is weighing whether it can “reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy,”…