Trump Demands Thousands of New Nukes
SITUATION REPORT The National Security Daily Brief from Reported by FP Situation Report 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 tr...