Tom Z. Collina and Akshai Vikram: Why Are We Rebuilding the ‘Nuclear Sponge’?
TNINovember 26, 2019
Welcome to the “nuclear sponge.” A bizarre idea that has outlived its questionable Cold War-era usefulness, the nuclear sponge is the United States’ collection of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles intended to “soak up” a nuclear attack.