The fact that Russia has the largest arsenal but has never once deployed any of it tells you all you need to know
-- that Putin is unwilling to risk any attempt knowing that the US, France and UK will bomb Russia to rubble within the 30 mins his nukes would take to get here and be taken out. Because the US Military already has tested intercept capabilities in the air and on water (some classified).

Russia can barely replace their combat losses in Ukraine as it is.
They are pulling WW2 era tanks, T-54/T-55s, from storage into service.
There isn’t going to be an arms race.

The only demented leader or madman around is the felon in the white house. The real "danger" to Putin is our US Military that can obliterate him and Russia before they can even strike.

Even as we alienate our allies and send a message that makes them question US solidarity with them, it forces them to push for nukes themselves in order to ensure they are not venerable.

I hear the pundits talk about being able to defend against a combined Russia/China threat as rationale to built up or modernize our nuclear arsenal.

Had Ukraine not given up their nukes...do you think Putin would have invaded them?

Trump is just one step from the grave and I do not trust anything he says or does.

I also do not trust Jesus freaks - they long to go to their heaven as if it is a magical place and then you got the rapture folks....it is real and dangerous.

I don't trust them either and my reply title is a semi-biblical way of saying they welcome doomsday as a prelude to the realization of heaven on earth. But the idea of "limiting" nukes is a red herring because it only takes a few to ruin civilization and the ecosphere. Russia once tested a 50 megaton bomb called Tzar Bomba and it was so powerful it exceeded the test zone by miles. And that test proved there is no theoretical limit to making bombs with bigger yields. So a new arms race with more and bigger bombs brings us all closer to some day of doom by design or miscalculation. The Doomsday Clock is now at 85 seconds to midnight. And this is because of religious zealots as well as mad leaders like Trump, Putin or Kim Jong Un who feel the need to prove their power by making threats with nuclear weapons.

They require tritium recharges every 5 to 8 years and tritium has a decent value on the open market so it is ripe for theft being small and easy to transport.

breaking it's treaties? Really? Like the US has ever honored its treaties?

As far as nuclear proliferation....although we have many times the number of weapons to destroy humanity the danger of accidental or likelihood of a nuclear incident increases the more widespread their presence becomes.

Ironically the US, the only country to have ever used a NUKE, likes to preach to others about nukes. For the American audience this is simply American nationalism. The rest of the world knows, without doubt, our history no matter how we try to spin it.

Note to KBH - Trump has kissed Putin's ass - speak the truth and stop making excuses for him. He could care less about NATO.

But, you can bet trump will be diverting money from much needed programs to build more nukes--each will have his name emblazoned on it.

Ukraine should not have given up their nukes. At least, not all of them. They were tricked into it by the promise they would be protected by the U.S. and others against future invasions. That didn't work out so hot.

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Their mole in DC is doing everything they want.

The president said in July that New START is “not an agreement you want expiring,” adding that it would be “a big problem for the world.” Then it expired.

Seven months ago, Trump said that the New START treaty is “not an agreement you want expiring,” adding that it would be “a big problem for the world.”

Yesterday, it expired.
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