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Low-Yield Warhead Eliminates Need for Nuclear Buildup, State Says

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

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Low-Yield Warhead Eliminates Need for Nuclear Buildup, State Says

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

The Department of State on Friday framed deployment of a low-yield warhead aboard U.S. submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles as a means of preventing a nuclear arms race. The agency's 10-page, election-year publication is part of a series of Arms Control and International Security Papers and takes aim at most critiques against the low-yield warhead leveled by Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee, which is now drafting the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. In the 10-pager, State’s Bureau of Arms…

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