At least the NBC article conctains enough detail that you can argue with it. For instance it states Some officials in the Pentagon meeting were rattled by the president’s desire for more nuclear weapons and his understanding of other national security issues from the Korean peninsula to Iraq and Afghanistan, the officials said.
Nuclear Force Modernization is a broadly accepted priority in the Pentagon. "Even" former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter got behind it after waking up to where the world was going.
At Minot in 2016 Carter stated: how we deter cannot be static. Rather, it must adapt as threats evolve while continuing to preserve strategic stability, reinforcing nuclear restraint rather than inviting competition or attack. That's important, because it illustrates how strong deterrence doesn't lower the threshold for nuclear war. Instead, it raises it. Today, however, it's a sobering fact that the most likely use of nuclear weapons is not the massive nuclear exchange of the classic Cold War-type, but rather the unwise resort to smaller but still unprecedentedly terrible attacks, for example, by Russia or North Korea to try to coerce a conventionally superior opponent to back off or abandon an ally during a crisis. We cannot allow that to happen, which is why we're working with our allies in both regions to innovate and operate in new ways that sustain deterrence continue to preserve strategic stability.
“... At least the NBC article contains enough detail that you can argue with it. For instance it states Some officials in the Pentagon...”
A legitimate article would have given some idea of the rank and the importance of “some officials.” Anyone who has ever worked in the Pentagon knows damned well that it’s corridors are stalked by individuals of little talent.