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Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice submitted a three-page joint statement to Congress entitled Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Fully Fund the RRW.

Okay, so I made that last bit up. But one-third of the report—the entire last page—is dedicated to the RRW.

The statement is pretty thin gruel, which is obvious by the second paragraph which suggests the real report is coming later:

To address these concerns in more depth, a detailed report will follow this summary paper. The report will lay out the data and methodology used to determine our nuclear weapons force structure, outline knowledge points for measuring progress in transforming our nuclear stockpile, and dispel a number of myths that have grown up around U.S. nuclear forces.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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