
The chair of the House Armed Services Committee had bitter medicine in a big spoon for disarmament advocates Wednesday: getting rid of nuclear weapons is a losing message that may have cost Democrats a chance to slow down procurement of next-generation, nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. “We’re losing this argument because we lost seats in the House,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told a webcast meeting of the Ploughshares Fund, a D.C.-based disarmament group Smith regularly joins for public forums. “‘We gotta…