Nuclear Weapons

The Obama administration is pushing ahead with an expensive plan to modernise the country’s nuclear arsenal despite criticism from within the Democratic party and from some nuclear experts who fear it could spark a new arms race. The Pentagon budget for 2017 includes funding for a controversial new air-launched cruise missile that can carry nuclear weapons and for a new nuclear bomb, as well as new submarines and long-range bombers.

FT 11th Feb 2016 read more »