The nuclear triad is not sacred February 2 A silhouetted B-52H Stratofortress taxis down the runway at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., on Sept. 16, 2016. (Airman 1st Class J.T. Armstrong/U.S. Air Force) One of the first questions outgoing Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., asked retired Gen. Lloyd Austin at his confirmation hearing was whether he supported the nuclear triad. Specifically, Inhofe said, “you agree that the triad the land-, air- and sea-based platforms are still necessary even though we hear a lot of arguments that two of the three would be adequate?” Austin’s response was: “I believe that the triad has served us well in the past, and I certainly believe that it will continue to do so going forward, and I personally support the triad.”
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A review of nuclear modernization and the Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan, which DoD released in December, are among the top items for Kathleen Hicks, if the Senate confirms her as Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Hicks, 50, has been involved on the inside and outside of the Pentagon since 1993, most recently as a senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She was one of a dozen bi-partisan members on the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States, which reviewed the 2018 National Defense Strategy. The latter posited China and Russia as the pacing threats for United States technologically and geostrategically while also noting ongoing threats from North Korea, Iran, and terrorist groups.
I am worried about the state of the readiness of the nuclear triad, Deputy SecDef nominee Kath Hicks tells the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning, “and, if confirmed, that is an area I would want to get my team in place and start to look at right away.”
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