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A new ICBM baseline design, which will deploy 400 new missiles,

update 450 silos, and modernize more than 600 facilities across almost 40,000

square miles of U.S. territory, which spans over six states, three operational wings, and a test location.

That is from a video produced by the Association of Air Force

Missoleers.

It's describing a massive new nuclear missile called the Sentinel.

The Sentinel program would replace America's 400 existing land-based

Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles.

And the project has a price tag north of $130 billion.

The US Air Force says the United States existing nuclear arsenal is decades old and in need of modernization.

Here's Lieutenant General Richard Moore Jr. the Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and programs earlier this year.

There is not a viable service life extension program that we can foresee for Minuteman 3.

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