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4 alternatives to the Pentagon's new ICBM modernization plan

Defense News: WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense is poised to spend $400 billion in the next decade – and potentially more than $1 trillion over the next thirty years – on modernizing its nuclear arsenal.

But such expenses don’t exist in a vacuum, and now a top budget analyst is urging the Pentagon to keep its options open and be realistic about the land-based leg of the nuclear triad.

“The future of the ground-based leg of the nuclear triad presents an important, once-in-a-generation strategic choice that should not be unnecessarily constrained by current acquisition plans, budgets, and requirements,” writes Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in a new report, released Sept. 22.

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