First, the Long-Range Standoff Missile (LRSO) deployed on either B-52 or B-21 bombers—while not technically classified as a “tactical weapon”—will possess the range, penetrability, and single-kiloton ...

the Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) air-launched cruise missile, the sea launched nuclear cruise missile, and new nuclear warheads. The costs of these projects are extraordinary: a 2017 Congressional ...

a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile that will be used by the B-52 and new B-21 Raider bombers. The LRSO missile will replace the Cold War-vintage AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile.

Known by the anodyne acronym LRSO (Long Range Stand Off), the missile is arguably both redundant and destabilizing in a time of disappearing nuclear diplomacy. Not only that, but because of their ...