U.S. President Joe Biden’s plans to cancel the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program have emerged as an early political brawl in a brewing fight over next year’s defense budget.
The Trump administration on Thursday identified the missile test engine site that it says North Korea has pledged to destroy, but the president’s latest comments about resolving the nuclear standoff have raised new questions about what concessions Pyongyang has made.
The Air Force on Wednesday awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for additional work on a new, nuclear-capable cruise missile known as the Long Range Standoff weapon or LRSO.