Pentagon chief pledges $108 billion to fix nuclear force

Published September 26, 2016

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Pentagon is committed to correcting what he calls decades of shortchanging its nuclear forces.

Carter spoke Monday at a nuclear missile and bomber base in Minot, North Dakota. He says $108 billion is earmarked for sustaining and improving the forces over the next five years.

Carter was taken 85 feet underground to a Minuteman 3 missile launch control center, and visited B-52 bomber crews and facilities.

Carter thanked the nuclear work force and expressed support for building a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers and submarines — a plan expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

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