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Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?

The reasons for the United States new intercontinental ballistic missile—the ground-based strategic deterrent, or GBSD—are historical, political, and to a significant extent economic. Many people in the states where the new missile will be built and based

via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2021/02/why-is-america-getting-a-new-100-billion-nuclear-weapon/

America is building a new weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear missile the length of a bowling lane. It will be able to travel some 6,000 miles, carrying a warhead more than 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It will be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single shot.