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Anthony Cotton neither endorsed nor repudiated the sea-launched cruise missile nuclear program, commonly called SLCM-N, in a February letter to Congress. The letter \u2014 entered into the congressional record during Cotton\u2019s testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week \u2014 and the Biden administration\u2019s proposed nuclear arsenal budget for fiscal 2024 lay the groundwork for another tussle with Congress over whether to proceed with SLCM-N.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA low-yield, non-ballistic nuclear capability to deter, assure and respond without visible generation (similar to the characteristics of SLCM-N) offers additional options and supports an integrated deterrence approach,\u201d Cotton wrote. \u201cIt is one of several possible nuclear or conventional capabilities the U.S. could develop to enhance strategic deterrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI support funding to address the full range of possible options to address this challenge in a rapidly changing security environment with the backdrop of multiple adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2022\/12\/07\/congress-reveals-plan-to-increase-defense-budget-by-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">authorized $25 million for continued SLCM-N research and development<\/a> when it passed the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act in December. By contrast, the Biden administration\u2019s FY24 budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration does not include SLCM-N funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proponents of SLCM-N in Congress heavily relied on Cotton\u2019s predecessor, Adm. Charles Richard, to argue in favor of what they view as gaps in the United States\u2019 low-yield, unobservable nuclear capabilities. In his own letter to Congress in June, Richard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/2022\/06\/07\/us-nuclear-commander-backs-sea-launched-cruise-missile-biden-would-cancel\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote that he supports SLCM-N despite the Biden administration\u2019s attempts to cancel it<\/a>, citing \u201cthe current situation in Ukraine and China\u2019s nuclear trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard retired when Cotton assumed leadership of Strategic Command in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCotton, who\u2019s taking a more measured approach, is still open to it, but he\u2019s not the adamant supporter that Richard was at all,\u201d said Stephen Young, who lobbies for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nuclear nonproliferation advocacy group. \u201cHe\u2019s not wedded to that as the only possible way to fill that gap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Young noted that the W76-2 warhead equipped on submarine-launched ballistic missiles already provides the U.S. with a low-yield, unobservable capability \u2014 even if the country doesn\u2019t have cruise missiles with those specific functions. Additionally, he argued that the U.S. is building the low-yield B61-12 gravity bomb that can launch from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2022\/12\/03\/deterrence-the-american-way-the-new-b-21-bomber-debuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">the new B-21 stealth bomber<\/a> as a non-ballistic nuclear option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo me it\u2019s a huge stretch to have to have all these things,\u201d said Young, arguing that SLCM-N is \u201ca nuclear warfighting tool that we don\u2019t need\u201d to achieve deterrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed FY24 nuclear weapons budget also includes funding to maintain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2022\/05\/19\/republicans-lay-battle-lines-over-bidens-plan-to-retire-b83-megaton-bomb\/\" target=\"_blank\">the B83 megaton gravity bomb<\/a>, which is 80 to 100 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. The Biden administration wants to retire the B83, per its Nuclear Posture Review, but has yet to lay out a time frame to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, Congress used the FY23 defense authorization bill to prevent its retirement until the Pentagon identifies a replacement capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are going to have to figure out how we are going to continue [with] what capabilities we have to go after [hard and deeply buried targets], whether conventional or nuclear,\u201d Cotton told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Young argued that \u201cthere are very few scenarios where\u201d the U.S. would want to strike hard and deeply buried targets using the B83 given the immense level of destruction that would ensue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you want to hit the various facilities in North Korea and drop the larger bomb, you\u2019ve got fallout \u2014 all of South Korea and Japan,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. 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