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Former DTRA Official Argues for Some Sentinels to Be Mobile

Frank Wolfe

Friday, January 12th, 2024

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Former DTRA Official Argues for Some Sentinels to Be Mobile

Michael S. Chase, deputy assistant secretary of defense for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, hosts delegates from China for meetings at the Pentagon on Jan. 9 (U.S. Navy Photo)

Robert Peters, the former chief of strategic trends and effects for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) from 2019 to 2022, argues that some of the future Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel ICBMs should field at bases but come with transporter erector launchers. "Making a comparatively modest investment (an additional cost of roughly $20 billion over the next 50 years) in a slightly more diversified strategic arsenal will be well worth the money," Peters, a research fellow for nuclear deterrence…

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