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Poll Commissioned by Nuke-Friendly Group Shows Broad Voter Support for ICBM Refresh

Poll Commissioned by Nuke-Friendly Group Shows Broad Voter Support for ICBM Refresh
The Air Force test launches a Minuteman III ICBM. Photo: Air Force.

A new poll commissioned in August by the Mitchell Institute here shows that a bipartisan group of U.S. voters favored acquisition of a new ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile fleet. The online poll, conducted in August 2021 by Washington-based communications firm Seven Letter, sampled 2,150 people who voted in the 2020 election. The study oversampled voters in 10 states with either intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos or industry that supports such  missiles. Oversampling can increase pollsters’ insight into populations that make…

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