Ben Nelson: “The LEP for the B61 gravity bomb... is critical. It's an aging weapon and we need to have a LEP underway.”

We cannot just be catching up or trying to stay at par with the rest of the world or otherwise our defenses are down.

There is undoubtedly a foundational level of space capability that regardless of force structure size in DOD, regardless of almost any other decisions made from a budget perspective, that space capability has to continue.

We must preserve our core fundamental space capabilities in this tight budget environment.

the approach that places top priority on movement towards nuclear zero and other arms reductions will dominate those considerations