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StratCom Chief Says U.S. Nukes ‘Very Close to Zero Percent Modernized’

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StratCom Chief Says U.S. Nukes ‘Very Close to Zero Percent Modernized’
Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

Although the Department of Energy has nearly finished the first of four ongoing warhead modernization programs, the U.S. nuclear arsenal is “very close to zero-percent modernized,” the general in charge of the Pentagon’s nuclear forces said Wednesday. “We’re starting down that path,” Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said Wednesday in a speech to the Association of the United States Army in Arlington, Va. “For the last three years, we’ve put modernization plans in place.”Russia, on…

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