Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
More than 700 scientists on Monday called for an end to the United States' land-based nuclear weapons program that's set to be replaced, following a Pentagon decision to approve the program despite soaring costs. In an open letter to President Joe Biden and Congress, the Union of Concerned Scientists argued that the new intercontinental-range ballistic missile system, known as Sentinel, was 'expensive, dangerous, and unnecessary.
The program will cost an estimated $214 million per missile, far more than originally expected, Bloomberg reported on Friday. However, the cost is hardly the only reason to cancel the program, UCS scientists argue. The silos that house the nuclear missiles, which are found in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska, are vulnerable to attack—in fact, they are designed to draw enemy weapons away other U.S. targets, according to Scientific American.
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