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Shifting From a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear Dyad

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Author
Jeffery H. Richardson - Visiting Scholar at CISAC

Published by
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September-October 2009

Jeff Richardson, a senior scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, outlines the rationale for retiring land-based ballistic missiles and leaving a strategic dyad of submarine-launched missiles and air-delivered weapons as the backbone of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

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Shifting From a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear Dyad

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