U.S. Senate Committee Cuts Bush Plan to Arm Strategic Missiles With Conventional Warheads


U.S. Senate Committee Cuts Bush Plan to Arm Strategic Missiles With Conventional Warheads -- David Ruppe  -- Global Security Newswire  -- July 24, 2006
Conventional Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee eliminated funding for a Bush administration plan to modify submarines carrying nuclear Trident ballistic missiles to deploy conventionally armed Tridents, judging it a potentially "provocative" capability.

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