Biden Administration Considering The Cancelation Of Former President Trump's New Nuclear Weapons Programs

A crew readies a Common Strategic Rotary Launcher full of AGM-86B air-launched cruise missiles for loading onto a B-52H at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lillian Miller.  

Politics: Biden team weighs killing Trump’s new nuclear weapons  

Officials are considering canceling weapons that were backed by the last administration. 

The Biden administration is considering killing off several nuclear weapons programs that were greenlit by the Trump White House as an internal debate over the nation’s atomic arsenal enters its final phase. 

According to nine current and former officials with knowledge of the deliberations, the Nuclear Posture Review, which is expected to be completed as early as next month, is not expected to make major changes to nuclear policy. Nor is it likely to recommend deep cuts to multibillion-dollar plans to build new intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-armed submarines and stealth bombers, they said. 

But national security officials are debating whether to jettison a new nuclear-armed cruise missile now in the research phase, retire a Cold War-era thermonuclear bomb, and possibly even remove a new “low-yield” warhead that the previous administration deployed on submarines, the current and former officials said. Most spoke on condition they not be identified in order to discuss internal deliberations and private conversations.  

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Update: Biden Mulls Dismantling Some Of Trump's Nuclear Weapons Programs - Reports (Sputnik)  

WNU Editor: According to the above report the Biden administration is "considering it". These programs are still far from being cancelled.

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