Trump tweeted this this morning.
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"My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before...."
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How is it '
now far stronger and more powerful than before'? It takes years to renovate and modernise nuclear weapons, not six months.
No new Executive Orders or legislation has been signed/passed to make this happen. The only thing that has been done in this area was a Presidential Memorandum in January ordering a 30 day Readiness Review and a Nuclear Posture Review.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...s-armed-forces
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The Secretary shall initiate a new Nuclear Posture Review to ensure that the United States nuclear deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored to deter 21st-century threats and reassure our allies.
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The only DoD funding request that's gone to Congress this year (in March) was for $30 billion in additional funding, and the only think in that linked to the Nuclear Posture Review was this -
http://comptroller.defense.gov/Porta..._Amendment.pdf
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Nuclear deterrence operations ($88.9 million) – Funds critical Nuclear Command, Control, and Communication capabilities to provide National Leadership secure connectivity, Nuclear Missile Sustainment and Security (parts to sustain the ICBM platform), and Nuclear Bomber Support (upgrades for strategic long range bombers).
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Also, the US Military did not start the Nuclear Posture Review until April, and isn't due to deliver until at least October.
https://www.defensenews.com/space/20...t-to-look-for/
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The Pentagon has pledged to finish the NPR by the "end of the year," according to the news release, but the conclusion could come more quickly. During an April 4 hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. John Hyten, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, said the administration had set a six-month timeline for the review.
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