Nuclear weapon cuts damage arms control February 15 America s unilateral nuclear restraint does not appear to induce reciprocal restraint on the part of Russia or China, according to the author of this commentary. (Senior Airman Abbigayle Williams/U.S. Air Force) As the Biden administration and 117th Congress begin ranking their priorities on U.S. nuclear modernization and arms control, the United States stands at a critical juncture where decisions made now will affect the U.S. nuclear force well into the 2070s and 2080s the expected service lives of several nuclear delivery systems in development. The Biden administration could follow the Obama administration’s model and pursue further nuclear arms control agreements while modernizing the U.S. nuclear triad. The other option, the one supported by many progressive think tanks, is to vastly scale back U.S. nuclear modernization and unilaterally eliminate hundreds of U.S. nuclear weapons in an attempt to persuade Russia
How would America have fought some of its wars without this weapon?
Key Point: The missile packs a mighty punch and is very accurate. Could America have used older bombers instead if the missile did not go into production?
For the past three decades, America’s signature weapon of war has been the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, or TLAM. The TLAM has helped bust down the doors of air-defense networks from Iraq to Libya, and has become a favorite tool of political influence for several presidents.
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But what if the TLAM had never existed, or at least not in the form that we have grown accustomed to? What if the United States had given up the TLAM in arms control negotiations with the USSR?
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The future prospects for the treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on measures for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms START III are dim, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he addressed the 6th Belarusian People's Congress.
Share Within a decade, cruise missile options for the B-52 will include new versions of the conventional AGM-158 as well as the all-new nuclear Long-Range Standoff missiles and possibly future Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missiles.
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After successfully fielding only one new cruise missile during the past 30 years, the U.S. Defense Department hopes to multiply that result over the next decade.
Two new candidates for a future hypersonic cruise missile are currently in testing, while a third has entered the design phase. A subsonic replacement for a nuclear version of the Boeing AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile is in development. Another replacement for the Navy’s RGM/UGM-109 Tomahawk is on the drawing board and may be adapted for a nuclear role as well.