Nuclear Decisions and Budget Constraints
The
Air Force should choose to quickly integrate nuclear weapons onto its future
Long Range Strike Bomber rather than the F-35, if budgetary constraints force a
choice, said former Chief of Staff retired Gen.
Norton Schwartz. “Absent financial commitment and burden sharing [by NATO allies],
I would argue that those resources now allocated for F-35 nuclear
integration…should be realigned to expedite Long Range [Strike] Bomber nuclear
certification,” said Schwartz during a Jan. 16 Stimson Center event in
Washington D.C.
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