Draft NPR pitches DOD's looming nuclear modernization bill as 'affordable priority'

By Jason Sherman / January 18, 2018 at 5:19 PM
A draft of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review brands the Pentagon's estimated two-decade-long project to modernize U.S. nuclear forces an "affordable priority" that will carry a cost, as a proportion of total defense spending, significantly lower than previous nuclear modernization campaigns. The new policy document , marked "for official use only" and "pre-decisional," dated January 2018 and obtained by HuffPost , previews the case the Trump administration will make in answering one of the biggest questions hanging over the once-in-a-generation...

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