Trump Says He Wants to Increase America’s Stockpile of Nuclear Weapons – After Putin Just Said He Does Too

‘Strengthen And Expand’

President-elect Donald Trump is calling for a significant increase to America’s nuclear weapons arsenal. Just hours after being given his second national intelligence briefing Trump took to Twitter to announce his intentions.

Earlier Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin made a similar announcement.

“We need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defence systems,” Putin said, as AFP reports.

“We must carefully monitor any changes in the balance of power and in the political-military situation in the world, especially along Russian borders, and quickly adapt plans for neutralising threats to our country.”

America already has more nuclear weapons than any other nation, and despite his goal of greatly reducing the number of nuclear weapons America has, President Barack Obama’s effort “constitutes the smallest reduction of the stockpile achieved by any previous post-cold war administration,” Federation of American Scientists (FAS) nuclear arms analyst Hans Kristensen wrote in May.