Senate appropriators have slashed the Pentagon's budget request for the Conventional Prompt Global Strike program, creating a potential conference issue with the House. The fiscal year 2017 defense spending bill the Senate Appropriations Committee approved May 26 seeks to provide $101.3 million for the CPGS program. This is an $80 million cut from the amount the Pentagon requested for the program intended to strike targets anywhere in the world in under an hour using non-nuclear weapons. The report accompanying the...