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Smith Wants Savings In New ICBM Effort

Pat Host

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

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Smith Wants Savings In New ICBM Effort

Air Force Global Stroke Command airmen from the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base test launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the Air Force to spend less on its new ICBM effort than the service has proposed.HASC Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Thursday if Congress and the Pentagon have a realistic view of what the United States can accomplish, they can live with a lot less money in the defense budget and one of the first places he would start is in nuclear modernization. Smith said he doesn’t oppose…

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