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Study of Nuclear, Sea-Launched Cruise Missile To Begin in FY 2020

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

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Study of Nuclear, Sea-Launched Cruise Missile To Begin in FY 2020

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The Department of Energy and the Pentagon could be studying a new nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile by this time next year, the Energy Department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said this week in an annual report on its nuclear-weapon programs.The Trump administration called on DoE to research the weapon in the Nuclear Posture Review published in February. At that time, “the intent was to defer the study until FY [fiscal year] 2020,” DoE wrote in its roughly 200-page 2019…

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