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STRATCOM commander says uploading hedge of ICBMs would not ‘perturb’ NNSA

Sarah Salem

Thursday, August 15th, 2024

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OMAHA, Neb. — Uploading land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles would not push the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) past its limits, the head of the U.S. Strategic Command told sister publication Exchange Monitor here Tuesday. “We've been actually studying that for a couple of years now to see if that is something that would actually perturb what the NNSA has to do moving forward,” Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of United States Strategic Command, said about the Air Force component…

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