The Trump administration wants to know how quickly nuclear weapons can be pulled out of storage and loaded onto bombers and subs if a major arms control treaty with Russia expires early next year
"The Trump administration has asked the military to assess how quickly it could pull nuclear weapons out of storage and load them onto bombers and submarines if an arms control treaty with Russia is allowed to expire in February, according to three people familiar with the discussions,""The request to U.S. Strategic Command in Nebraska is part of a strategy to pressure Moscow into renegotiating the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty before the U.S.
"'It’s a clear signal that the costs for not negotiating before the election are going to go up,' said one of the people, who requested anonymity to relay sensitive discussions. The Trump administration is 'trying to create an incentive, and it’s a real incentive, for the Russians to sit down and actually negotiate.'"Trump will nominate Brian Davis to be the assistant secretary of defense for manpower and reserve affairs, the White House announced Monday.
"It’s not clear how imminent any potential attack might be, or whether it is the driving factor in the administration’s recent push to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But the situation bears echoes of another fraught incident: the attack on the U.S. consulate and another facility in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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