Originally Posted by
Kronik85
Looks like classic Trump really. The USA does not need to expand it's nuclear arsenal, it already has the capacity to make the planet uninhabitable dozens of times over. Whilst the USA has been signed up to NPT since 1968 that didn't mean the USA just left it's nuclear arsenal to rot, whilst NPT forbids expansion it does not forbid modification which is how the USA has developed it's nuclear weapons since signing NPT.
Rather than making more nukes, the US has been making it's nukes more effective, turning them into bunker busters so that no enemy regime would be safe, creating low yield nukes to be detonated in the high atmosphere to destroy enemy infrastructure via an EMP and creating more effective delivery systems that would stop it's enemies from shooting them down before they reached the target or creating devastation across a much larger area. Whilst it's internationally banned it's probably quite likely that the US has nukes modified for underwater explosions to cripple enemy naval fleets via sinking them or irradiation.
Nuclear expansion is a frivolity the US doesn't need and would be an international relations disaster with it's allies, it really doesn't matter if Putin wants to build more nukes, if he wants to waste vast amounts of money on yet more nukes that Russia doesn't need either then let him, it will only hasten his Russians bankruptcy.
Genn put it best here.