Hewuse is one of the U.S. Air Force missileers who met Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday as he oversees a Pentagon review of America's aging nuclear arsenal. Mattis himself questioned in 2015 whether the three legs of America's nuclear "triad" of ballistic missile submarines, bombers and land-based missiles should perhaps be reduced to a "dyad." U.S. officials have also noted that America's nuclear modernization is lagging behind Russia's upgrade of its own nuclear triad. The Arms Control Association estimates that the total cost of upgrading the U.S. nuclear forces will be between $1.25 trillion and $1.46 trillion over the next 30 years. She has also brightened her capsule by painting the lock used to keep nuclear missile launch keys shut in a cabinet above her head.

Source: The Star September 14, 2017 01:07 UTC