![]() ![]() ![]() The administration’s 2018 Nuclear Posture Review had also pushed for more low-yield “tactical” nuclear options. As part of the FY 2021 budget request, the Trump administration revealed that it intended to create a new nuclear warhead for sea-launched missiles, in order to replace two existing ones that would require modernization over the next 15 to 20 years. For fiscal year 2021, it had requested almost $46 billion in nuclear weapons spending, a significant hike from the previous year’s. nuclear modernization efforts as part of what it described as great power competition with China and Russia as well as well as emerging nuclear threats. The Trump administration had maintained a considerable accent on U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile is at the lowest level of warheads since the late 1950s, with the average warhead age being older than at any other time in history,” he writes. nuclear modernization could fuel an arms race, Lutton claimed that the “critics’ arguments don’t line up with the facts.” “he size and age of the U.S. Questioning those who argue that continued U.S. nuclear forces must be modernized-the ICBM force, the bomber force, the submarine ballistic missile force and Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capabilities.” In his article, Major General Michael Lutton asserted that “to be an effective deterrent force, U.S. 20th Air Force, responsible for managing the three intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) wings, has made a case for continued nuclear weapons modernization as the United States seeks to meet an array of nuclear threats. Writing for Breaking Defense on February 12, the commander of U.S. ![]()
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