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HASC Chair ‘Confident’ Biden Administration Will Consider Minimum-Deterrent Nuclear Arsenal

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HASC Chair ‘Confident’ Biden Administration Will Consider Minimum-Deterrent Nuclear Arsenal

If Joe Biden wins the White House in the Nov. 3 election, his administration will consider backing off the U.S. nuclear buildup set in place by the Obama administration in 2016, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee predicted Thursday. “China’s philosophy has been very simple: we’re going to build a reliable nuclear arsenal that is sufficient to inflict so much pain on any adversary that they will not dare pose an existential threat to us,” Rep. Adam Smith…

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