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Nuclear Modernization

Joint Chiefs Chairman Boosts SLCM-N Again In House Armed Services Hearing

Wednesday, April 6th, 2022

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Boosts SLCM-N Again In House Armed Services Hearing

Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

The top-ranked U.S. general again touted his support for the low-yield, nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile the Biden administration wants to cancel, this time at the invitation of House Republicans during Tuesday’s Armed Services Committee hearing. Army Gen. Mark Milley’s position on the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile, SLCM-N, “has not changed,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the administration’s fiscal year 2023 defense budget request. Milley reiterated his support for…

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