The U.S. military's ability to launch strategic strikes with both nuclear and non-nuclear weapons is at risk of erosion due to the "imminent loss" of skills required to support research, development and production of systems that assist in delivering long-range attacks, according to a group of senior advisers to the Pentagon's leadership. In a new study, a Defense Science Board task force decries "a serious loss of certain critical strategic strike skill may occur within the next decade." Released this...
