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House Armed Services Chair Puts Long Odds On Blocking Low-Yield Nuke

Thursday, October 24th, 2019

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House Armed Services Chair Puts Long Odds On Blocking Low-Yield Nuke

The NNSA's new mission logo for the W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched, ballistic-missile warhead. Credit: NNSA

Congress may not block the Navy from deploying a low-yield nuclear warhead this year after all, House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the weapon’s No. 1 detractor in Congress, said Thursday. “That’s going to be very, very difficult, very difficult because of the strong opposition from both the White House and the Senate,” Smith said here during a nuclear policy breakfast hosted by the Ploughshares Fund. Since the Trump administration proposed creating it in 2018, Smith has said…

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