The House Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday in support of the Trump administration plan to add new smaller nuclear weapons into the U.S. arsenal to counter Russia.
The party-line vote added authorization into a 2019 defense policy bill for the Pentagon to pursue new sea-based cruise missiles and lower-yield ballistic missiles launched from submarines.
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