Washington Wire: Congressional leaders and the military are at odds over how to modernize decades-old nuclear missile defenses
are in some cases decades old and in need of modernization, but congressional leaders and the military are at odds on how best to update the Cold War systems. Leading congressional Democrats want the military to review existing programs to make sure that updates to nuclear defenses are being done in cost-effective ways, while senior military leaders bemoan bureaucratic delays they say are creating strategic gaps with China.
Forming a backdrop to the debate, largely occurring in the House and Senate Armed Services committees, isbased on satellite imagery showing hundreds of new nuclear missile silos in the Chinese desert. That has led to hand-wringing by U.S. military leaders that modernization efforts have so far been inadequate. “It’s going to take us 10 to 15 years to modernize 400 silos that already exist,” Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen. John Hyten said at a Brookings Institution event on Monday.
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