Mattis: New U.S. Nuclear Capabilities Needed to Deter Moscow

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis defended the administration’s 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) as the right response to Russia’s rising nuclear capacity and its failure to abide by international treaties, in comments to the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday.

The NPR calls for the creation of two new submarine-launched nuclear weapons: a low-yield nuclear warhead to be carried by ballistic missiles, and a nuclear-capable cruise missile.

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