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The $130B Plan to Replace the U.S.’s Nuclear Missiles | WSJ Equipped

About 450 Cold War-era Minuteman nuclear missiles were only supposed to last 10 years. But now, these ICBMs have defended the U.S. for more than 50. The Air Force is planning to spend $130 billion on replacing them to boost the U.S. nuclear defense strategy with a new modern iteration—the Sentinel missile. WSJ explains the science and strategy behind nuclear…