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It’s worth noting, too, that only one member of the Democratic House leadership triad is not a stalwart moderate, Minority Whip Katherine Clark.

Beijing, the senior partner in the triad, seeks to be the stable leader of a new world order, one that is not led by the US.

But the land-based part of the triad is actually the opposite of deterrence — it’s an invitation to be attacked.

They not only called for cancellation of the Sentinel program for a new version of ICBMs, they also called for getting rid of the entire land-based leg of the triad.

And as Norman Solomon and the late Daniel Ellsberg once wrote, “If reducing the dangers of nuclear war is a goal, the top priority should be to remove the triad’s ground-based leg — not modernize it.”