Trump Demands Thousands of New Nukes

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The National Security Daily Brief

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley

How Trump sees national security. After being shown a chart showing the gradual reduction in American nuclear weapons stockpiles during a meeting this summer, President Trump demanded “what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal,” several national security officials tell NBC News.
“According to the officials present, Trump’s advisers, among them the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, were surprised. Officials briefly explained the legal and practical impediments to a nuclear buildup and how the current military posture is stronger than it was at the height of the build-up. In interviews, they told NBC News that no such expansion is planned.”

There is also the matter of several international treaties that limit the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. After the meeting, according to this account, Tillerson made his infamous quip that Trump was a “moron.”
Nuclear deal. Obama administration veterans are pulling out the stops to make the case against letting the Iran nuclear deal fall apart. Over at Just Security, former Obama administration National Security Council legal adviser Tess Bridgeman games out how a decertification may not necessarily spell the end of the deal — assuming Congress doesn't use the occasion to reimpose sanctions in an attempt to renegotiate the deal.

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