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HASC Chair Floats Cuts for GBSD, Extension for Minuteman III

HASC Chair Floats Cuts for GBSD, Extension for Minuteman III
An unarmed Minuteman III ICBM was test launched early Tuesday from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. Photo: Air Force.

To give the Pentagon more money to spend in the future, the U.S. could buy fewer new intercontinental ballistic missiles and again extend its aging fleet of nuclear-tipped Minuteman III missiles, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee said at a conference here Wednesday. Smith has said nuclear weapons are only useful for deterring a nuclear-armed adversary from using its own nuclear weapons. To that end, the Armed Services chair believes the U.S. does not need “as many warheads…

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