Nuke Experts Say Trump’s Tweet Is ‘A Very Bad Sign’

President-elect Donald Trump unexpectedly tweeted in support of boosting the United States’ nuclear capacity on Thursday, marking a potential reversal in us policy.

The comments, made by the president-elect via Twitter, came the same day Russian president Vladimir Putin also vowed to strengthen his country’s nuclear weapons capabilities.

The US and Russian Federation have the world’s largest nuclear arsenals with 7,000 and 7,300 warheads respectively, according to one estimate, followed by France (300), China (260), United Kingdom (215), Pakistan (130), India (120) and Israel (80). No other country in the world now maintains more than 300 nuclear weapons – deployed or non-deployed – in its stockpile.

Still, the suggestion that he could preside over a new nuclear arms race will spook critics who argued he showed himself unfamiliar with basic nuclear doctrine during the campaign. All this is to say nothing of the crippling brain-drain within the industry of US nuclear weapons specialists or the crumbling maintenance facilities like Pantex or Y-12.

Though Trump and his team did not give any indication as to why the real estate mogul tweeted about nuclear arms Thursday, the president-elect did meet with advisers at his private Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Wednesday.

On Thursday, President-Elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to share more thoughts on his eventual presidency.

Moscow, amid a large-scale modernization of its program, has violated many arms control treaties, she said.

Talking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper in April, Trump said proliferation is “going to happen anyway”, and during a meeting with the New York Times said it “wouldn’t be a bad thing for us” for Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia to have nuclear weapons.

In a tweet Thursday, Trump raised eyebrows by calling for an expansion of the United States’ nuclear capability.

The Russian President is seeking to return Russia to the front ranks of global influence, a project that is key to his domestic political survival and often involves actively seeking to undermine USA power.

Trump’s apparent fondness for nuclear weapons was a theme throughout his campaign for office.

As high of a level of quality as, for example, the nation’s nuclear triad, which includes intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles as well as strategic bombers.

His comment marks a jarring departure from President Barack Obama’s rhetoric, who in a famous speech in Prague in 2009 called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Experts estimate the cost will hit United States dollars 1 trillion over the next 30 years.

“The last time this training method was used was by Nazi Germany during the Second World War”, he added, according to a transcript published on the defence ministry’s website.

Trump wants to expand our nuclear arsenal.