Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), in a recent hearing, said an aircraft carrying a B61 bomb will be a “much reduced cost” alternative to the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile aboard a conventional submarine. “I am not opposed to, you know, having a tactical nuclear option at sea,” Kelly said at a June 10 Senate Armed Services committee hearing to the witnesses, including Secretary of the Navy John Phelan and Acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. James Kilby. “My big concern is…
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