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A Montana Democratic will chair the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, handing new clout over the defense budget to a state with nuclear weapons interests.
Why is the U.S. spending $100 billion to send nukes to Montana?
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The locations of the 10th Missile Squadron, headquartered at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana
By: Darrell Ehrlick/ Daily Montanan
Posted at 8:13 PM, Feb 09, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-09 22:13:30-05
Montana is known to residents as either the âTreasure Stateâ or âThe Big Sky State,â but to defense experts, itâs just a ânuclear sponge.â
Thatâs a technical term that reveals, among other things in a new report published Monday by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, that while Montana is in line to get part of a new $100 billion land-based missile defense system to replace its Minutemen III weapons, the reasons behind the new system are mired in politics, lobbying and have little do with making America safer, reports The Daily Montanan.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) Two Missoula County men were reported missing during a camping and fishing trip along the Marias River in northern Montana, the Toole County Sheriff's Department.