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Sunday, March 02, 2014

ICBM coalition senators urge DoD to retain missile silos

Minuteman III ICBMMembers of the Senate ICBM Coalition this week pressed Adm. James Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to retain the intercontinental ballistic missile silos in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

The coalition group members included Senators John Hoeven, R-N.D., Jon Tester, D-Mont. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., John Walsh, D-Mont., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo.,

Hoeven and Tester, as members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, authored a provision in the Department of Defense appropriations bill that explicitly blocks the administration from undertaking any environmental analysis to reduce the number of active silos containing Minuteman III ICBMs, all of which are located at bases in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

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