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Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Strategy: (paperback edition)

Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Strategy: (paperback edition)

Kearn, David W.

Paperback

Series: Rapid Communications in Conflict & Security

General Political ScienceWeapons of Mass Destruction

ISBN10: 1621964728
ISBN13: 9781621964728
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Oct 15 2019
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

*This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn).

The United States is currently in the early stages of modernizing its entire nuclear enterprise. The Obama administration, established a program to replace all three legs of the strategic triad over the next three decades: long-range bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, as well as the upgrade of an existing gravity bomb and a replacement for the air-launched cruise missile. Nuclear command, control and communications systems and the nuclear weapons laboratory complex and infrastructure are also included in the program. It is estimated that the full strategic modernization program will cost as much as $1.2 trillion over thirty years. The Trump administration largely endorsed this plan, with two additional refinements--the retrofitting of a portion of submarine-launched ballistic missiles with lower-yield warheads and the development of a sea-launched cruise missile--to better address challenges of renewed great power competition.

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