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The Air Force also plans to retire the only aircraft capable of carrying the B83, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, by 2032 at the latest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe rationale of this administration to retire the B83 gravity bomb without a replacement capability is not clear to me,\u201d Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., the ranking member of the House Strategic Forces Subcommittee, said at a Tuesday hearing. \u201cIn fact, it is my understanding that not only is there no replacement capability, but the process to identify candidates for a replacement capability has not even yet started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lamborn argued that the B83 \u2014 which is 80 times more powerful than the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima during World War II \u2014 is necessary for targeting \u201chard and deeply buried targets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the assistant defense secretary for space policy, John Plumb, who serves on the Nuclear Weapons Council, countered that the B83 does not adequately address the challenge of deeply buried targets. \u201cIt\u2019s of increasingly limited utility, and retiring it does not change the hard and deeply buried target set,\u201d Plumb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration opted to keep funding the B83 last year in its FY22 budget request, but subsequently decided not to maintain the bomb in its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review. The decision revives former President Barack Obama\u2019s efforts to defund the nearly 4-decade-old megaton bomb. Former President Donald Trump then derailed the Obama administration\u2019s plans when he decided to retain the B83, which is the last remaining megaton bomb in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., also pushed back against retiring the B83 during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday with officials from the National Nuclear Security Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy understanding is that the number of targets the B83 is credible for has been shrinking,\u201d NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby told Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. 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Ed Markey, D-Mass., who had sought to kill the B83 in legislation he introduced last year that would slash $73 billion from the nuclear weapons budget over a decade, said he was \u201cheartened\u201d by Biden\u2019s plans to retire the megaton bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo sane leader could contemplate deploying a nuclear bomb that is 100 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima,\u201d Markey told Defense News. \u201cWe must resist \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Strangelove<\/a>\u2019-like efforts by Republicans to keep our last and most indiscriminate megaton bomb in the stockpile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/04\/01\/biden-plan-to-shelve-trump-era-sea-nuke-comes-under-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">authorized $52 million to fund the B83 in its annual defense bill last year, <\/a>despite efforts from House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., to defund it. 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