US News and World Report quotes Representative Mac Thornberry from an Atlantic Council event, A Strategy for America, on the need to discuss America’s nuclear supply:
America needs to replace a rotting arsenal of nuclear weapons and counteract an increasingly boisterous Russia, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Tuesday. For these reasons, it must consider the long-taboo prospect of building new nukes.
“Can we have a national conversation about building new nuclear weapons?” Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said in remarks at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC “That’s something we haven’t been able to even have a conversation about for a while, but I think we’re going to have to.”