
Though some in the U.S. government feel Russia will rely increasingly on non-conventional and nuclear arms, including tactical nuclear weapons, that does not make a case for continuing development of a low-yield, sea-launched nuclear cruise missile, a Pentagon official said here Wednesday. The sea-launched nuclear cruise missile (SLCM-N), with its W80-4 variant warhead, “was not necessary and nothing has changed,” Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, said Wednesday at the 2022 Defense News Conference. To support his case, Kahl…