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Trump receives 'very nice' Christmas letter from Putin

haymarket said:
The 2 different programs are the existing and the program that would emerge from this week Trump announcement claiming a need to expand our nuclear weapons.
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I didn't see anything proposing a second plan.
 
haymarket said:
I was referring to this from Trump

Donald Trump'''s Call for '''Arms Race''' Boggles Nuclear Experts - NBC News

You have a point. Perhaps it is not an actual plan as much as it tipped his hand about his intentions.... which could end up being a plan down the road.
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This is from the article you linked.
"The thrust of U.S. nuclear policy for decades now has been to trim the fat off the U.S. nuclear arsenal," said James Acton, co*-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "At a certain point," he said, quoting Winston Churchill, "you are just making the rubble bounce higher."
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James Action stated the we trimmed the fat. That sounds good but what he refers to as "trimmed the fat" is actually refers to a reduced budget that has caused us to fall behind.

“Our capabilities as a whole have lasted well beyond their designed service life,” testified Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney, who heads U.S. Strategic Command. “It is crucial that we modernize our strategic deterrence capabilities, which underpin our national and global security.”
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It’s not just aging planes. The nuclear-tipped Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), the strike weapon carried by the B-52, is 30 years old. It was designed to last 10 years.

“It’s having difficulties maintaining its reliability,” Gen. Robin Rand, head of Air Force Strike Command, told a House Armed Services Committee panel last July. “But more importantly, the missile will not be survivable in the ever-increasing A2AD environment.”
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Obama already set to spend $20B a year to update U.S. nukes - Washington Times

I think his tweet sends a message to China and Russia that we are going to take a strong stance in addressing their increase of nuclear capabilities.
 
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