'Let it be an arms race': Trump appears to double down on nuclear expansion
'Let it be an arms race': Trump appears to double down on nuclear expansion
Ed Pilkington and Martin Pengelly in New York
Friday 23 December 2016 12.28 EST
The president-elect Donald Trump has stunned nuclear weapons experts by appearing to call for a renewed arms race on his Twitter feed and in a TV interview.
“Let it be an arms race,” the president in waiting was reported to have told Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme, in an early phone call on Friday.
According to Brzezinski he went on to say: “We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”
The incendiary comment followed a tweet on Thursday in which Trump threatened to preside over a major ramping up of the US nuclear arsenal.
READ MORE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/d...
Ed Pilkington and Martin Pengelly in New York
Friday 23 December 2016 12.28 EST
The president-elect Donald Trump has stunned nuclear weapons experts by appearing to call for a renewed arms race on his Twitter feed and in a TV interview.
“Let it be an arms race,” the president in waiting was reported to have told Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme, in an early phone call on Friday.
According to Brzezinski he went on to say: “We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”
The incendiary comment followed a tweet on Thursday in which Trump threatened to preside over a major ramping up of the US nuclear arsenal.
READ MORE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/d...
