Us president-elect, Donald Trump recently created contention on his tweet that until the world comes to sense about nukes, United States must strengthen and expand its nuclear capability. The comments come after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his own country needed more nuclear weapons. He intends to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defense systems.
According to NYTimes, Trump's words are in sharp contrast to what President Obama planned to be his own legacy bringing down the number of atomic weapons on the planet. While President Barack Obama has proposed a multibillion-dollar plan to modernize the maturing U.S. nuclear triad, no mainstream voices are arguing to increase the numbers of nuclear weapons beyond the 4,500 active warheads the U.S. currently possesses.
Trump's tweet left inquiries in the matter of whether the President-elect was calling for expanding the number of atomic warheads in the US munitions stockpile. If this is true, it would run counter US-drove endeavors to diminish worldwide atomic stockpiles or just contend for a modernization of the atomic weapons program.
As reported by Bloomberg, in an obvious endeavor to quiet any strains about his nuclear remarks, Trump later said in a statement that he had received a very nice letter from Putin prior this month calling for more grounded relations between the two nations. Trump's tweet prompted analysts to question whether Trump was threatening to abrogate the 2011 New START treaty, which limits deployed warheads and delivery systems or would begin deploying other warheads.
The United States is one of five nuclear weapons states allowed to keep a nuclear arsenal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The others are Russia, Britain, France and China. The United States has 7,100 nuclear weapons, while Russia has 7,300, according to the Arms Control Association, a U.S.-based non-partisan group.
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