US will keep new Sentinel ICBM despite rising costs

Costs are rising for the new missile intended to modernise the land-based leg of the US nuclear triad

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  • A "critical" legislative breach
  • Congressional complications
  • Alternatives to Sentinel
  • Further extending Minuteman
  • Abandoning land-based ICBMs
  • Maintaining Sentinel
  • Outlook

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