The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee would limit the number of nuclear weapons the Defense Department is hoping to retire in fiscal year 2024 unless it can show there won't be a capability gap, according to a draft of the subcommittee's mark-up of the defense policy bill released Monday morning. DOD would not be able to deactivate, dismantle or retire more than a quarter of the nation's B83-1 gravity bomb stockpile, according to the draft. These bombs are intended...
