Will The U.S. Cut It's ICBM Forces?

Photo: Test launch of LGM-118 Peacekeeper Intercontinental ballistic missile by United States Air Force. Wikipedia

Senators Tell Hagel Not To Study ICBM Cuts -- The Hill

A group of senators are telling the Pentagon to back off any plans to conduct an environmental impact study that would examine eliminating intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos.

The 10 senators, mostly from Western states and members of the bipartisan ICBM Coalition, wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Thursday calling it “premature” to study the ICBM reductions until the administration presents a plan to implement them.

The ICBM cuts would be part of the U.S.-Russia New START treaty on nuclear arms reductions. The U.S. currently has 450 ICBMs in states deployed across the West.

“ICBM silos are as much of an enduring strategic asset as are ICBMs themselves,” the senators wrote to Hagel.

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My Comment: Congress is making it's point of view on the subject of nuclear force reductions very clear .... do not even think about it. The Pentagon has also made it very clear that they will protect their nuclear missions from sequestration. But some are still maing thec ase that cuts are not only necessary .... but inevitable.