New Blog C12-4: US Nuclear Arsenal is Expected to Expand

The Huffington Post just recently wrote an article covering President Trump's thoughts of the United States nuclear arsenal. President Trump says that the United States has fallen behind in it capacity of its nuclear arsenal. An anti-nuclear interest group has reported that Russia has 7,000 war heads and the US has 6,800. President Trump doesn't want to have nuclear weapons at all but he has said that if someone has some then we must be leading. All of this stems from the concern of our allies that are neighbors of North Korea and its stockpile. Trump has said the China could very easily defeat the national security challenge that North Korea poses by putting pressure on Beijing to influence Pyongyang's aggressive actions that could potentially lead to war. Trump has said that one possible solution to this is by quickly adding to both Japan's and South Korea's defense. The Obama administration made a new deal with Russia called start which states that come February 5, 2018 both the United States and Russia will not be able to exceed another's capacity for any type of nuclear weapon. There is a big question whether Trump will follow this deal or strike a new one that would allow both Russia and the US to continue to stock pile nuclear missiles. Typically all of these previous actions that were mentioned would fall under the jurisdiction of congress but in situations like today where technology has changed war forever, the president must be ready to declare war and be prepared. Nuclear weapons can do a lot of damage fast and if the decision to go to war was left to congress to debate, the war might be over or the United States would be over powered before they came to a conclusion.