No country wants “on-site inspectors roaming around on their territory,” Korda says. So, failing that, the world’s nuclear powers can use satellites and other remote sensors to monitor the world’s nuclear weapons remotely. AI and machine-learning systems would then take that data, sort it, and turn it over for human review.

“The conclusion of New START allows us to streamline our focus and dedicate more resources to our core mission: ensuring a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent,” an AFGSC spokesperson told TWZ. “This managed transition enhances our operational readiness and our ability to respond to the nation’s call.”

“Although we will not comment on the posturing of our forces, Air Force Global Strike Command both maintains the capability and training to MIRV the Minuteman III ICBM force and convert its entire B-52 fleet into dual capable long range strike platforms if directed by the President,” the spokesperson added.

District of Columbia (SSBN-826) is now about 65 percent complete, and shipbuilders General Dynamic Electric Boat and at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding are working to deliver the submarine in 2028, Program Executive Officer Strategic Submarines Rear Adm. Todd Weeks said Wednesday at a panel during WEST 2026.

“We sat down with our shipbuilding partners, and we realized that we were not where we needed to be on District of Columbia. We were not making the progress we needed to be making,” Weeks said. “Together with our shipbuilders, we embarked upon a bold plan that we called the A-26 acceleration plan and the goal was to be able to deliver every single one of the [26] modules that makes up [District of] Columbia, to deliver all those modules to the final assembly yard in Groton by the end of by the end of last year… We achieved that.”

We will continue to provide the U.S. extended nuclear deterrent.

"Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, and Sweden will jointly develop and produce loitering munitions with a range of 500 km. A corresponding agreement was signed today in Berlin on the sidelines of the NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels, according to the Ministry of Defense. The project will be implemented within the framework of the European Long Range Strike Approach (ELSA) initiative for the development of conventional long-range weapons."

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According to well-informed sources, the OWE 500+ should be capable of delivering payloads of around 50 kg precisely to their targets over a distance of 500 km. To keep costs as low as possible, one of the proposals apparently involves using conventional 155mm artillery shells as warheads for the weapon.