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Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Cut Low-Yield Warhead, Sea-Launched Nuke As Part Of Upcoming Review

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Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Cut Low-Yield Warhead, Sea-Launched Nuke As Part Of Upcoming Review
Ed Markey, U.S. Senator for Massachusetts talks with U.S. Air Force Col. Matthew Leard, 60th Air Mobility Wing vice commander Travis Air Force Base, Calif., during a gas and go, August 16, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo by Louis Briscese)

A group of Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Biden to use the imminent Nuclear Posture Review as an opportunity to cut two nuclear modernization programs approved during the Trump administration, the deployment of the new W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched warhead and development of a nuclear sea-launched cruise missile. Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Reps. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.), co-chairs of the Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, led a letter sent to…

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