Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the House on Tuesday that he was once a skeptic about maintaining ICBMs in the nation's nuclear triad, but he has changed his mind since joining the Trump administration.
Mattis said he now believes that Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads in silos across the Northwest provide a "strong deterrent to anyone who decided they wanted to employ nuclear weapons against us."
At a House hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), Mattis was responding to questions from Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, about the evolution of his thinking on the nation's defenses against nuclear attack. Read More
Mattis said he now believes that Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads in silos across the Northwest provide a "strong deterrent to anyone who decided they wanted to employ nuclear weapons against us."
At a House hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), Mattis was responding to questions from Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, about the evolution of his thinking on the nation's defenses against nuclear attack. Read More