Biden says submarine he commissioned will enhance US security

President Joe Biden returns a salute as he stands with first lady Jill Biden (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

President Joe Biden has commissioned the USS Delaware, a nuclear attack submarine, saying it would enhance national security – though he made no reference to the global turmoil from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“As the commander in chief, I believe it is our sacred obligation as a nation to prepare and equip those troops that we send into harm’s way and to care for them and their families when they return home,” he told a crowd of invited guests and dignitaries assembled on a sunny but chilly spring day on a restricted part of the dock in Wilmington.