Tu-160 strategic bombers will launch cruise missiles over the North Atlantic in a pattern typical of an attack on the US mainland, and other bombers will drill over the Arctic.

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For many years, the USSR demanded that strict numerical limits on the number of American sea-launched cruise missiles be included in the emerging Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

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Finally, to recover the importance of the nuclear mission within the Department of Defense and to maintain the critical delivery systems that constitute the three legs of the triad itself, we must do planning, programming, and budgeting for follow-on nuclear weapons delivery systems, which would include cruise missiles, warplanes, ballistic missiles, and strategic submarines.

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