
The United States must ramp up spending on defense and nuclear weapons modernization to maintain technological superiority and counter increases in Russia’s defense budget and modernization efforts, according to Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.“They continue to crank out new nuclear warheads and maintain an advantage on tactical warheads about 10 times what we do,” Thornberry said in his “Strategy for America” address at the Atlantic Council today.Thornberry noted that while U.S. defense spending has…