full-scale nuclear weapons? no. >> in connecticut they make and manufacture submarines occasionally, but the closest might be in the ocean right now. >> what is the system in the u.s. for securing our nuclear weapons. you do some really great reporting about the contractors versus the federal government over spears. talk about that. >> so when nuclear weapons are not on a missile were not on a bomber or not on a submarine, they are the custody of the department of energy which i didn't even know when i began reporting on this. i thought the department of energy dealt with the power grid and renewable energy, but one of their main missions is nuclear weapons and nuclear material. as has been the case for many decades, this is true of a lot of the government, we hire federal contractors to do this kind of highly specialized work and so there are plenty of sites around the country that technically belong to the doe but are run by for-profit corporations who kind of police themselves and do their own oversight and c

and i think our twitter was a weapon. your twitter was a weapon? yes.to join the mass evacuation of eastern aleppo. fatima got bana on to one of the buses disguised as a boy. today, the last opposition fighters retreated from their former stronghold, and by the evening the syrian army was in control of the entire city, for the first time in more than 11.5 years. just days after escaping all this, bana dreams of returning. translation: i was happy to leave, but sad at the same time. i wish i could go back to aleppo, go back home. i want to live in my house, because i love it, even if it had been bombed. i love my house. in english: we shall overcome some day. before saying goodbye, bana sang us a song about childhood and stolen freedoms. # i am a child with something to say...# 0ne voice, raised for countless others, who often go unheard. 0rla guerin, bbc news, ankara. an experimental vaccine has been found to be highly effective against the deadly ebola virus. the trial was conducted in guinea, one of the west african countries most affected by an outbr

on nuclear weapons, it's really a sensitive matter. >> i would agree. >> who has the most nuclear weapons after us and russia? >> i don't know. but i'm sure he does. >> it's france. india and pakistan. one of the most important things to know is the number of nuclear weapons that they've got on launch status. do you guys talk about that? is that like -- >> well, i don't. he's surrounded by national security team. >> if the united states announces a u-turn on nuclear policy, india and pakistan don't have any nuclear weapons on launch status. they could move them to that status because a new nuclear arms race is going to start. >> we're getting ahead of ourselves, rachel. >> but that's what happens in the past when presidents have made even jokes about nuclear weapons. i think what i'm trying to get at is a lot of people are hiding under the bed right now because it doesn't seem like he knows what he's talking about on this issue. >> that's not fair. >> how can you make policy on twitter. >> he's not making policy on twitter. >> expanding our nuclear arsenal and announces i on twitter is a

>> saddam had two-thirds of the weapons of mass destruction, biological weapons and chemical weapons. he had a lot of them. what he didn't have what some thought he had was nuclear weapons. it confuses the issue i think to talk about weapons of mass destruction engeneral. >> so do you think trump is right to raise that as a failure of the cia that makes him say that they are now wrong, again? is that a step too far? >> i think he has a fair point in stressing the importance of getting political campaigns to focus on truth, and on debates on the issues rather than on the lies that one side may generate. and -- or both sides in different ways. and i think that this is, to a certain extent, because of this conflation of disinformation and fiddling with the birth records and so forth, i think there's real confusion if the public debate because of that. >> so, before we go, i want to ask you one other thing. president-elect trump being criticized for not receiving the daily briefing. something that they're saying george h.w. bush may be getting more details now because you're allowed to ge

i think our twitter was a weapon. your twitter was a weapon? yes. to join the mass evacuation of eastern aleppo. fatima got bana on to one of the buses, disguised as a boy. today, the last opposition fighters retreated from their former stronghold, and by the evening the syrian army was in control of the entire city for the first time in more than four and a half years. just days after escaping all this, bana dreams of returning. translation: i was happy to leave but sad at the same time. i wish i could go back to aleppo, go back home. i want to live in my house, because i love it, even if it had been bombed. i love my house. we shall overcome some day. before saying goodbye, bana sang us a song about childhood and stolen freedoms. # i am a child with something to say...# 0ne voice, raised for countless others, who often go unheard. 0rla guerin, bbc news, ankara. the funeral of the russian ambassador to turkey, who was shot dead three days ago in ankara, has been held in moscow. andrei karlov was murdered by an off—duty policeman while giving a spee

after all, it was a single shot loading weapon. it was used essentially the same way that the old weapon had been used for 150 years. but linear tactical formations did of course change. world war i is the true, as i said, the cauldron of tactical change in modern history. of fare the introduction better and more powerful long-range artillery, the introduction of magazines for small arms and you have the introduction of heavy fortifications, the introduction of machine guns, etc. world war i is a fascinating subject of study. if you are interested in world military history. because it is the most interesting and dynamic changes in tactics you will see in world history. we are in the middle of the centennial of world war i and there are many good books being published about it. i am fascinated by reading the stuff. happened you know what during the course of world war i, getting away from formations of lines and down to the evolving responsibility to smaller units. by the time you get to the post-world war ii era, the modern fire te

trumump: absolutelely. >> n nuclear weapons? ,r.rumpmp: not nunuclear w wes weapons, but at the pay is. japapan, that the pay as or r ty have to protect themselves. >> youou say japanan and sououth korea, ok. mr. trump: it is going to happen anyway. it is only a question of time. amy: that was president-elect trump speaking earlier this year. joe cirincione, can you respond to that, not only the question of high alert taking u.s. nuclear missiles off high alert, but also trump's position on other countries acquiring nucleaear weapons? >> he is wrong on so many levels. but take it apart. first of all, it is not inevitable. there's nothing inevitable about nuclear clear for rations. for the last 40 years, democrat and republicans have had a concerted policy to reduce nuclear weapons in the world. guess what? it has worked. there are far fewer nuclear weapons in the world than at the height of the cold war. we have cut the arsenals by 80%. more countries have given up nuclear weapons and nuclear programs over the last 30 years that hav

>> to drop a nuclear weapon into that community? >> you don't want to take everything off the table. >> just nuclear. >> nuclear should be off the table, but would there be a time it could be used? >> when you said that, the japanese heard it. we bombed them already. you are running for president of the united states and maybe using nuclear weapons. no one wants to say that. >> then why are we making them? i was against iraq and i would be the last to use it. that sounded like the end of the world. >> can you tell the mideast we are not using it? >> i would never take cards off the table. >> what about europe? >> i don't want to take the cards off the table. >> you want to use it in europe? >> i'm not taking cards off the table. >> the trouble is the same people hear you and insane people are not affected by the threats. they say keep it up. >> they are more affected than you might think. >> your call. >> donald trump with chris matthews in march of this year. let's bring in the guests to start the conversation. listen to the titles

on nuclear weapons, it's really a sensitive matter. >> i would agree. >> who has the most nuclear weapons after us and russia? >> i don't know. but i'm sure he does. >> it's france. >> well. >> india and pakistan. one of the most important things to know about india and pakistan having nuclear weapons is number of nuclear weapons that they've got on launch status. do you guys talk about that? is that like -- >> well, i don't. he's surrounded by national security team. >> if the united states announces a u-turn on nuclear policy, india and pakistan don't have any nuclear weapons on launch status. they could move them to that status because a new nuclear arms race is about to start. >> we're getting ahead of ourselves, rachel. >> but that's what happens in the past when presidents have made even jokes about nuclear weapons. i think what i'm trying to get at is a lot of people are hiding under the bed right now because it doesn't seem like he knows what he's talking about on this issue. >> that's not fair. >> how can you make policy on twitter? and then say he's -- >> he's not making policy

weapons. the amount of weapon sales is mind-boggling. we have never sold such vast sums to any country before. just under the obama administration we have's sent $100 billion of weapons to saudi arabia. that is a massive amount of weapons. saudi arabia is propping up the u.s. military industrial complex, and what are they doing with those weapons? repressing their own people, going into neighboring people during the arab spring. they were not able to see democratic movements prevail in the neighborhood, went into bahrain where there is a beautiful nonviolent uprising among the population, using u.s. tanks, they came in and crushed that uprising. i mentioned the uprising can be found with al qaeda groups and syria and libya and iraq, but now the weapons are being used to devastate, on already very poor country in the middle east, and that is yemen. that it is something our media does not cover enough. this is something that the american people barely even understand. now it is going on 20 months since the saudi's got involved in an intern

weapons. the amount of weapon sales to saudi arabia is mindbogglingly. weapons to saudi arabia. just let that sink in a little bit. i know it's sometimes hard when you talk about the big numbers but that is a massive amount of weapons. saudi arabia right now is propping up the u.s. military industrial complex and what are they doing with those weapons, repressing their own people, going into neighboring countries like during the arab spring. they did not want to see democratic movements prevail in the neighborhood, went intothey bobraihn where there was a beautiful nonviolent uprising among the population using u.s. tanks, came in and crushed the uprising. i mention that the weapons can now be found with al-qaeda groups and syria and libya and iraq but also the -- the wins are now being used to devastateb on already poor country in the middle east and that is yemen. and this is something that our media doesn't cover enough. this isn't something that the media people barely understand that now it's going on 20 months since the saudis got involved in an internal conflict in yemen

i mentioned the weapons can be found with al qaeda groups in syria and iraq but also the weapons are now being used to devastate an already very poor country in the middle east and that is yemen and that is something our media does not cover enough. this is something the american people barely even understand, that now it's going on 20 months since the saudi's got involved in an internal conflict in yemen because they worried that one side, the booties close to iran would give around a foothold and they went in there and like george bush when he went into iraq thought it would be quick and dirty, it hasn't been. it's been very dirty, and has not been quick. it's been 20 months now and i said that yemen was already a very poor country. you look at what the united nations is now saying, is a catastrophic situation not only with thousands and thousands ofinnocent people being killed , mostly by the bombing but also because of the destruction of the infrastructure, millions of children severely malnourished right now, facing famine in yemen. there is an outbreak of cholera because the wa

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and biological weapons. and i found this little part of the story particularly interesting. i'm going to tell you about two characters. the person who led the biological weapons program and the chemical weapons program. because operation paper clip is also a story about rivalry. so the reason the impetus for this program, and the joint chiefs of staff approved it. the idea was that hiring these nazi scientists, hitler's technologies was the lesser of two evils that if we didn't hire them then the soveylingts surely would. so we took on in addition to the rocket scientists and the aviation scientists and the medical doctors the deputy furer -- the deputy surgeon general of the reich who had been tried at nuremburg and acquitted and also major general walter sliber who ran the chemical weapons program. and what was fascinating to me was these two men fought one another all throughout the war. one worked on offense, on biological weapons. the other worked on the vaccines to inocculate soldiers against these kin

weapons. the amount of weapons that saudi arabia and is mind-boggling. we have never sold such vast sums of weapons to any country before and just under the obama administration we have sold $115 billion worth of weapons to saudi arabia. let that sink and progress in times it is hard when you talk about big numbers but that is a massive amount of weapons. saudi arabia right now is propping up the u.s. military-industrial complex. water they doing with the weapons? repressing their own people going into neighboring countries like during the era of spring they did not want to see democratic movements prevail in the neighborhood so they went into bahrain with a beautiful blonde violent uprising with the population using u.s. tanks came into crush the uprising. now the weapons can be found in the all chitin groups. bottles so the weapons are now used to devastate an already very pour country in the middle east and that is yemen this is what the country does not cover enough that they barely even understand. going on 20 months since the saudis got involved in

and russia, who each have about 5,000 weapons in their active stockpile, say they need more weapons, well, how about china, who has about 200, 250? do they need more? what about india? what about pakistan? that's why this tweet and the follow-up statement today, let there be an arms race, is so worrying, so not the kind of statement you want to make. ronald reagan never said something like this. he said a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. the exact opposite of the message donald trump is putting out today. >> barbara starr, we all know there's always a great deal of reaction to what donald trump puts on twitter and often there's overreaction, to be fair, to what donald trump puts on twitter. when he talks about greatly strengthening and expanding the nuclear capabilities, now, before he talked about an arms race, modernizing the nation's nuclear force is something that's going on right now. it's something president obama is committed to. modernizing means in some cases improving, right, and changing and modifying over time. that is something where there is broad agr

ambassador sherwood, your reaction to the nuclear weapons comment by donald trump today. what you think it might mean, and how you think it will be interpreted in the world. >> well, i think what we've really heard, lawrence is a great deal of concern today, because in 140 words, donald trump is resetting american nuclear policy in a way that risks not only an escalation with russia, but an escalation with the world. and all of the confusion we had during the campaign about whether he was really encoupling japan and south korea to get nuclear weapons or whether he believed that nuclear weapons were dangerous and it was born to build them down, yes, have them as a deterrent while everyone else does of course, but to modernize them of course, not to expand them but to build them down. if that change is taking place, it is an earthquake in the danger and the national security interests of our country. so i'm quite concerned about what he said. he did use the word expand. and if he didn't know what he was saying, then that is of serious concern as well. one can't do national

and biological weapons. and i found this little part of the story particularly interesting. i'm going to briefly tell you about two characters. the person who led the biological weapons program and the chemical weapons program bt because "operation paperclip" is also a story about rivalry. and so the reason the impetsus for this program was the -- and the program worked out of the e ring at the pentagon, the joint chiefs of staff approved it, and the idea was that hiring these nazi scientists, hitler's technology giists was the lessef two evils. if we didn't hire them, then the soviets surely would. so we took on, in addition to the rocket scientists and aviation scientists and the medical doctors, the deputy fuhr -- the deputy surgeon general of the reich who had been tried at nuremberg and acquitted and also major general walter schreiber who ran the chemical weapons program. and what was fascinating was these two men fought with one another all throughout the war. one worked on offense, you know, on biolo

reporter: your twitter was a weapon? >> yes.orter: but the tweets attracted threats and made it harder for the family to join the mass evacuation of eastern aleppo. onto one ofbana the buses, disguised as a boy. today the opposition fighters retreated from their former stronghold, and by evening, the syrian army was in control of the entire city for the first time in more than four and a half years. just days after escaping all this, bana dreams of returning. >> i was happy to leave, but sad at the same time. i wish i could go back to aleppo, go back home. i want to live in my house because i love it, even if it had been bombed. i love my house. reporter: before saying goodbye, bana sang us a song about childhood and stolen freedoms. [bana singing] reporter: one voice raised for countless others who often go unheard. bbc news, ankara. a seven year how old child can endure such horror. around the holidays, there are plenty of inspirational stories alex told, along them lewis. three years ago, he thought he had a common cold. inst

at least four inside the compound all armed with particle weapons. how'd you get this l lel of detail? we have an operative inside the compound. unless he's going to take out these guards you're not going to have an easy time getting all the way to the hostages. it's not your concern. it is if you get the captain killll. you're outnumbered four-to-one. wouldn't you like to improve those odds? they could be useful. give them their weapons. (device beeping) tucker: captain, can you hear me? trip. it's me and malcolm, sir. we're about half a kilometer away. just the two of you? not exactly.y. we met up with some old friends down here: andorians. er time. one of the people guarding you is working with them. when he unties you, head for the gate. it's abobo 20 meters from the building you're in. until he shows up, just sit tight. aah. aah... it'll warm you up. (clanging) who's that? ah, it's just my friend, nothing to... (grunts and groans) tucker: hey, wait a minute! (bottle shatters) tucker: what the hell is g gng on? (grunts) get down. vulcans! did you

a new army was created, equipped with new weapons.ch refused to leave its harbors. finally, the british had to bomb landlocked italian warships. malta, a british stronghold, survived ceaseless pounding by nazi and fascist air. [explosions] narrator: the british sweep through libya by the general succeeded in destroying mussolini's empire. the british captured somaliland, and in may, 1931, the king was restored to his throne. under the marshall, nazi forces slashed into egypt, but whatever the future might hold for democracies in the middle east, the italian fascists had lost the war in africa as well as in europe. here are italian prisoners, captured in the first libyan sweep as they were lead off to prison camps. the name of mussolini seemed to lose its luster, and before long, he was to find himself competing with vichy for the favor of hitler. britain still stood, and hitler, frustrated, turned east. if this were to be a long war, he would need russian oil and russian wheat. so he proclaimed himself anew communism,my of despite his

to have a nuclear weapon?it a minute -- >> you said south korea and japan maybhang developed their own nuclear weapon capability? >> no, what i said is, i'll keep it the way it is, but they have to pay their fair share. >> as you said, it seems to create a little bit of animosity between the united states and a very close ally. a slight there that japan is not carrying its fair share in weight in terms of the defense arrangements in asia pacific. >> that's certainly been an argument that he's made not only about japan, but about the europeans. they don't care their weight in -- >> is that true? >> in the sense that we pay for most of the -- we bear a greater share of the cost than either one of them, certainly. our defense budget dwarfs just about everyone else's defense budget. and japan has renounced the use of nuclear weapons, and also, the use of force, except for self-defense. so it sort of fell to us after the war to provide that defense to us. and in they live in a fairly unstable part of the world with

nuclear weapons policy? and should the nation beef up its nuclear arsenal?o: matthew kroenig, an associate professor at georgetown university who's written extensively about nuclear weapons, and joseph cirincione, the president of the ploughshares fund, a non-profit organization that advocates for disarmament. he, too, has written widely on the subject. gentlemen, thank you both for joining us. mr. cirincione, let me start with you, when you hear or read the president-elect saying that the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability and then say this morning let it be an arms race, what's your reaction? >> stunned. an ill-considered, disrespectful and dangerous series of statements. this would upend decades of republican and democratic policy that ever since ronald reagan has been reducing nuclear arsenals both in the united states and russia and around the world, stopping other countries from getting nuclear weapons. by using the word "expand" he says he wants to grow the arsenal or capabilities. nobody is against keeping a stron

15,000 weapons now. the u.s. and russia have 95% of them. so we're the big guys. what we do matters. if putin and trump are now both talking about strengthening and expanding, as trump said, their arsenals, that's a signal to the other guys to start their engines. what's china going to do? what's india going to do? what's pakistan going to do? that's what's so worrying about what donald trump is saying. if he's talking about a new arms race, it's all the eight, nine if you include north korea nuclear nations in the world. >> you're putting your finger on this specifically, which is the difference between tone, whether it sounds put tatively tough to say let's race and let's build or strategy and capacity, who is actually in this race, does he know the number of countries? is he talking to them or is he talking to nonnuclear countries and saying, come on in, the water's warm? yeah, there's two things here. one as you pointed out in that excellence, we still have weapons under a cold war posture. we still

would halt the sale of some weapons to saudi arabia. white house press secretary josh earnest spoke about yemen on tuesday. some pretty significant concerns about the high rate of civilian casualties in yemen. many of those casualties have been, as a result of operations carried out by the saudi-led coalition in the region. not all of them. there have been civilian casualties as a result of operations carried out by their adversaries as well. and of course, the u.s. is playing a role in supporting the saudi led coalition. in light of the high rate of civilian casualties, the president ordered a review of the kind of assistance that the united states provides to the saudis as a undertake this effort. that review is ongoing, but there are a couple of steps that the united states is prepared to to change some of the assistance that we provide. that includes refocusing our efforts to support the saudis when it comes to enhancing their border security and or territorial integrity. amy: josh earnest speaking tuesday. while washington is halti

what could we stand to benefit by modernizing our nuclear weapons, by adding more to our nuclear weaponsnd seeing russia do the same? >> well, it's a bad strategic nuclear policy. because the world, the international community, its efforts have been to reduce nuclear weapons, nuclear materials, nuclear materials peddled by black operations. we have to contain north korea. and we're now going to say that we're going to upgrade our nuclear arsenal? it makes no sense. president-elect trump has a cadre of advisers. he should review these issues besides sending tweets in response to putin. i thought they were friends. now we're going to have a nuclear arms race because they're trying to outdo each other? this makes no sense. >> it certainly is not clear what's going on, at least for donald trump. but talk to me. say he does want to ramp up the nuclear program. how is he going to pay for it? what's it going to cost? he's already balked at the idea of paying $4 million to boeing for two new planes. how much is this going to be, and how is he going to pay for it? >> well, president obama, i mean

as your previous guest said we are about 1800 deployed nuclear weapons. supposed to get it down to 50 by 2018. what does the president mean by expand? rip up the treaty? what is his vision for this? nobody has explained that. >> i'm not being facetious. has he been briefed on the start treaty in. >> i think he got a briefing. looks like the tweet came after a pentagon briefing he received. but, look, again, he should be able to explain these things. much more detail and clarity, particularly talking about nuclear weapons. what's his goal. kellyanne is right. he put boeing on notice, lockheed martin. threatening to move to an f-18 hornet. talking about cancelling air force one. he's telling people i'm paying attention to these things. with this tweet he tends to do, what kellyanne says, is keep america safe and step it up where we need to step it up. no country will win an arms race with us. but we don't want an arms race. it seems strange to start the relationship this way. >> you have this other aspect of this relationship, if that's what we -- the word

when nuclear weapons are talked about in public it is to make a point. it is to send a signal to russia, to china, to north korea, to pakistan. can you imagine what those countries are thinking right now? and all they have to base their information on is this 140 character tweet. >> and buck i want to give you the last word. i do think it is completely possible that expand the capability can mean modernize. that may very well be drew. it is also true however the way donald trump has talked about nuclear weapons during the campaign he did seem to be much more willing, to use them, to have countries that don't have them all of a sudden get them. he's talked about nuclear weapons in a very different way. >> it is not easy to lay out what a policy is going to be in this segment. that said. there is nothing wrong with the tweet. presidents speak in sound bites all the time. the issue of updating is well out there in public. and let's be realistic about the fact that the deterrent that our nuclear arsenal provides is for us. it is for our nato allies and a lot

no weapon involved.t may or may not change by the time we get there. >> we can go in. >> as sisca surveys the surrounding area, diaz heads up to meet the victim. >> we're a documentary crew, just doing something on the body cameras. >> okay. >> did you just get robbed? >> yeah. attempted robbery. >> but they didn't get anything? >> no, think didn't get anything. >> attempted robbery. nothing was taken. the male was assaulted by several males. no weapon involved. take you outside real quick. >> so there was an attempted robbery. they didn't get anything. but the young man who lives here has been take into a squad car and they're going to see if he can identify the people that tried to rob him. weil we canvass the area by squad car for anyone fitting the assailants' description, officer sisca suddenly slams on the accelerator. >> 24. >> blue jeans. all units stand by. >> in the chaos of the moment it's hard to understand the radio call, but it's clear that something's going down. >> there he goes right the

bob: i think we would all start with the weapons issues -- nuclear weapons issues and say that north korea has been a for u.s. national security experts for decades, going back to the korean war, but that situation materially changed when north korea acquired nuclear weapons and acquiret about to ballistic missiles to be able to attack not only our allies in northeast asia, japan, and the republic of korea, but also is reach the way to continental united states. if we were talking about a security threat, that is the principal one, but let me just quickly add that we worry everyday that the regime in north korea which has a history of doing provocative things off the coast will do something, inbe because it believes nuclear weapons and can determine a response, even by the united states, will do something that would spark another conflict on the peninsula. that is the second concern. , for me which is personally one that rises to the top of the list, is the north korean propensity to transfer both ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons capability. business that the this is a no done

there was no program of weapons of m mass destructction.: saddam hussein was also deeply critical of al qaeda and other islamist groups inspired by wahhabism. in fact, hussein told nixon that he felt the united states and iraq were natural allies in the fight against extremism. during the interrogation, saddam hussein also had a warning for the united states about iraq. he said -- "you are going to fail. you are going to find that it is not so easy to govern iraq. you are going to fail in iraq because you do not know the language, the history, and you do not understand the arab mind." well joining us now is , former cia analyst john nixon, author of the new book, "debriefing the president: the interrogation of saddam hussein." what you write in this book is quite stunning. you are the first person that went to interrogate saddam hussein. you had studied him for years, yet what you found when you met him shocked you. >> yes. yes, you know, it is one thing to see some of the on a tv screen or aa film or in picture, but when you meet them up c

they don't want money spent on nuclear weapons.hink, also, as fred mentioned, the old -- remember, in the old days, the united states supposedly outspent russia and won the cold war. i don't agree with that theory, but it's part of it. so putin is saying, we're not going to go back to those days with you outspend us. >> fred, you were talking about not needing to read twitter like it's a test or to parse it that way. do you think that donald trump will take the policy more seriously when he gets into office than with twitter? i mean, he certainly has serious people, a lot of generals around him, people with experience when it comes to weathering it. >> i have no idea. people say, when he gets the nomination, he's going to get very serious about it. oh, when he's elected, he'll get very serious about this. we haven't seen it yet. he hasn't given one speech which kind of welcomes into the fold people who didn't vote for him, for example. so i have no idea. but the whole thing about nuclear, the need to strengthen our nuclear force, h

but they still have many weapons.ve stock piles of 7,000 warheads, of which 1,900 are deployed or ready to use. russia has just over 7,000, with just under 1,800 deployable. while the uk has 250 warheads, of which 120 are available to use, and could be fired from its vanguard submarines. both america and russia are already modernising their nuclear weapons systems, at significant cost. what is not clear now is whether donald trump now wants to go much further. tensions have been rising with russia, these us troops on exercise in the baltics a response to its intervention in ukraine. russia's military campaign in syria has deepened the rift. but donald trump has signalled he wants to improve relations with moscow, so his comments might be more directed at north korea, whose unpredictable leader boasts of now being a nuclear power, or even iran. donald trump threatened to rip up a deal over its nuclear programme, still suspicious of iran's intentions. what donald trump did with that tweet, was, restart the nuclear arms