
The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee prohibits funds for a variety of nuclear weapons in the executive summary of its fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) markup, released June 3. The summary would ban funding for the deployment of the W76 2 low-yield ballistic missile warhead, as well as a mobile variant of the Air Force’s forthcoming Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missile. Authorizers involved in the subcommittee’s summary also call for the elimination of a requirement for…