The Pentagon is weighing how to slash the cost of the nation's nuclear-weapons arsenal without eliminating one leg of the longstanding nuclear triad, outgoing Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said today. Although nuclear forces, like all mission areas, must be examined in the Defense Department's effort to cut more than $450 billion in the next decade, eliminating one leg of the triad -- which consists of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, Air Force bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles -- is not...
