A senior Defense Department official said the Russia-Ukraine war now ranks among the most significant strategic-deterrent crises the nation has faced since the advent of atomic weapons, while bemoaning the aging state of strategic weapon systems in the Pentagon's arsenal. Adm. Chas Richard, head of U.S. Strategic Command, delivered a forceful public plea for new investments in submarines, bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles and command and control systems, while alluding to the war in Eastern Europe where Russian President Vladimir Putin...
