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Deputy SecDef: Modernize Nukes or Lose Capabilities

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

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Deputy SecDef: Modernize Nukes or Lose Capabilities

Robert Work, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Photo: Department of Defense.

If existing nuclear forces are not modernized, the U.S. will lose its existing deterrent capabilities in the 2020s and 2030s, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said Thursday. “The choice that we’re facing quite frankly…is not [between] keeping the existing force or modernizing the force,” Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said Thursday during a full House Armed Services Committee hearing on nuclear deterrence policy. “The choice right now is modernizing the force or losing deterrent capability in the 2020s and 2030s. That’s…

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