The Sentinel Missile Project: Risks and Costs

The new US land-based missile program, Sentinel, is experiencing major cost overruns. This provides an opportunity to revisit the decision to deploy the Sentinel missiles to replace the existing Minuteman III land-based missiles. Congress should terminate funding for the Sentinel missile program. Land-based missiles are vulnerable to attack, triggering a “use them or lose them” dilemma; deploying a new generation of missiles is contrary to commitments the US made under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and their use would violate the international law of armed conflict; and there are better uses for the vast sums of money involved. Read the LCNP statement here.