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Senators Urge Cancellation of LRSO Program

Valerie Insinna

Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

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A group of seven Democratic senators on Tuesday called on the president to cancel the Air Force’s nuclear air-launched cruise missile program, the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon.In a Dec. 14 letter, Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said the LRSO would play a destabilizing role in national security.Like the legacy AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), LRSO would come in nuclear…

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