{"id":1713614,"date":"2022-10-27T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713614"},"modified":"2022-10-27T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:35:21","slug":"biden-admin-scraps-sea-launched-nuclear-missile-over-military-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-scraps-sea-launched-nuclear-missile-over-military-objections\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Scraps Sea-Launched Nuclear Missile Over Military Objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-scraps-sea-launched-nuclear-missile-over-military-objections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713614&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Trump-era project focused on threat from Russia<\/p>\n<p>    The Pentagon is seen from the air in Washington, U.S., March 3, 2022, more than a week after Russia invaded Ukraine. REUTERS\/Joshua Roberts   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/reuters\/\" title=\"Posts by Reuters\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Reuters<\/a> \u2022 October 27, 2022 1:25 pm  <\/p>\n<p>By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014The United States will stop developing nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, Pentagon documents released on Thursday said, despite senior military officials publicly recommending keeping it.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to cancel the submarine-launched cruise missile could help President Joe Biden address calls from fellow Democrats to scale back America&#8217;s nuclear arsenal without sacrificing major components of its nuclear &#8220;triad&#8221; of nuclear-tipped ground-based inter-continental ballistic missiles, nuclear-capable bomber aircraft, and submarine-launched nuclear arms.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is unclear if Congress, which could come under Republican control after next month&#8217;s elections, will resist the efforts to scrap it.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration released three documents on Thursday: the National Defense Strategy, Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Review. Together, they laid out the military&#8217;s priorities for the coming years and underscored that Washington would maintain &#8220;a very high bar for nuclear employment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, the military made a decision in 2018 to develop a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile, with a focus on the threat from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>But the Biden administration said in its review the sea-launched cruise missile program (SLCM-N) was unnecessary and would be cancelled because the United States already had the &#8220;means to deter limited nuclear use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters the military did not need the SLCM-N because there was enough capability in the nuclear inventory already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this sends any message to Putin. He understands what our capability is,&#8221; Austin said when asked if the scrapping would send a dangerous message to Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>In April, top U.S. general Mark Milley told lawmakers that his position on the SLCM-N had not changed and he believed multiple options were needed.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether any military officials had recommended canceling the SLCM-N, a senior U.S. defense official told a briefing that &#8220;everyone&#8217;s voices have been heard.&#8221; The official added the program was scrapped because even if it had been fully funded, the missiles would not be ready until 2035.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it stands right now, there is no need to develop SLCM-N,&#8221; the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said.<\/p>\n<p>One program from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014The United States will stop developing nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, Pentagon documents released on Thursday said, despite senior military officials publicly recommending keeping it.<br \/>\nThe post Biden Admin Scraps Sea-Launched Nuclear Missile Over Military Objections appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1713617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}