Unneeded Nukes

Feb. 8, 2006

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The Air Force will shed 50 of its Minuteman ICBMs as a result of the QDR. The Air Force explanation, from General Wood, they are “excess to our strategic needs.” He pointedly refused to discuss whether they would be converted with conventional warheads—one quick-turnaround option for getting a precision global strike capability.

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