[butlerweave]

Obama probably destroyed or gave away the US’s weapons to his Muslim friends

[Williams]

Our nuclear deterrent has been greatly reduced and is aging.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Yesterday Vlad Putin said he would increase Russian Nuke capability...today Game set and match TRUMP called him and raised him...
This does not necessisarly mean an arms race...Trump and Putin are NEGOTIATING...welcome to the new reality...
amen!
Freegards
LEX

[ETL]

"Trump: U.S. must greatly strengthen nuclear capabilities"

As opposed to...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

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[bkopto]

I recall reading in 2008 sometime that the US’s nuclear warheads were rapidly approaching end of life and that modernized nuclear weapons were needed to be built as replacements.

Obongodinga did nothing about this, AFAIK. Maybe Trump is referring to this issue.

[RedWulf]

Obama’s been trying and failing to produce new nuclear weapons for a few years now. I guess teams full diversity hires can’t build nukes. I doubt Trump will have this problem but it might be very expensive problem to fix.

[HarleyD]

He’s been given national security briefings and he understands.

[Kickass Conservative]

Don’t forget, the first thing Obama did when he became POTUS was to halt all Research and Development of new Nuclear Systems capability. In other words, he halted any Modernization of our Nuclear Stockpile.

Remember Obama’s hot mic comment to the Russian President about letting Vlad know he would be more flexible after the 2012 Election? The flexibility he was talking about was reducing our Nuclear Capability even further.

He has an ideology that the rest of the World will follow our example of weakness and do the same. He’s a Maroon as well as a Traitor, period.

[RayChuang88]

Here's what Trump should do: phase out the entire stockpile of B61 gravity-drop nuclear weapons in favor of reviving an improved version of the AGM-131 SRAM II missile with a variant of the W89 warhead that can adjust the yield between 15 to 200 KT. With a range of around 248 miles, such a missile would make the B-2 and its successor a viable nuclear deterrent platform well into the 21st Century.

[ConsCA]

I’ve had this feeling for a couple of decades and we must be willing to do a first strike.

[RC one]

We need to greatly strengthen a number of our military capabilities-nuclear capabilities too for sure. Russia and China need to know beyond any and all doubt that they won’t survive either.

[Mariner]

While a big expansion of the strategic deterrent may or may not be warranted, certainly modernization of the delivery systems is.

All of them are old a decrepit.

Reliable, sudden delivery is paramount. As is the the command infrastructure. Somebody has to get the message to the boomers at sea RELIABLY, 100+ percent of the time, as well as the other two legs of the triad.

Any nation that knows, with certainty, that we can put 1500 warheads where we want them, when we want to, in spite of their best efforts, will not challenge us.

And 100kt is plenty.

[libh8er]

Trump: U.S. must greatly strengthen nuclear capabilities

This is classic Trump positioning. I don't think he literally means increasing the number of warheads we have but a message to Putin that while he welcomes friendly relations, he will kick butt too if it came to that. And to the Chicoms that it isn't open season in the South China Sea anymore.

[trebb]

We’ve been letting our aging nukes collect dust and the rest of the world is in develop/build mode. Folks will rail against Trump but he’s absolutely right if we are to maintain an effective deterrent.