A static display of intercontinental ballistic missiles at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., front gate the evening of April 4, 2012. From left are the Peacekeeper, the Minuteman III and the Minuteman I. The planet Venus is visible in the sky above the Minuteman missiles and Jupiter is visible to the left of the Minuteman I. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Popular Mechanics: A Tenfold Increase in Nukes Would Be a $15 Trillion Waste of Time
Your suspicions are correct. This is a very bad idea.
President Donald Trump has indicated to his generals and national security staff he wants a tenfold increase in nuclear weapons, an increase that would leave the U.S. will more nukes than it ever had at any point in the Cold War. Such a staggering increase in the nuclear stockpile would reverse decades of arms control agreements bent on reducing the overall number of nuclear weapons and almost certainly trigger a new arms race.
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Update: Trump’s Plan for 32,000 Nukes Would Bankrupt America (David Axe, Daily Beast)
WNU Editor: A lot of assumptions are being made on what the US President said in a meeting almost two and a half months ago from an anonymous source. But aside from all of that .... there is no political will in the U.S., Russia, or anywhere else to even contemplate doubling everyone's nuclear stockpiles, let along 10x .... the costs and consequences are too prohibitive, and rightly so.
