“The president-elect Donald Trump has stunned nuclear weapons experts by appearing to call for a renewed arms race on his Twitter feed and in a TV interview. ‘Let it be an arms race,’ the president in waiting was reported to have told Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme, in an early phone call on Friday. According to Brzezinski he went on to say: ‘We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.’ The incendiary comment followed a tweet on Thursday in which Trump threatened to preside over a major ramping up of the US nuclear arsenal.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/23/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-arms-race
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