The head of U.S. Strategic Command has called on Congress to provide the level of funding prescribed in the fiscal year 2016 budget request as lawmakers consider legislation that would cut expenditure on nuclear weapons by about $100 billion over the next decade. The so-called Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures bill was reintroduce this week by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and would reduce the Navy's strategic nuclear submarine force from 14 to eight and cut...
