THE MEMO: GOP breaks from Trump in 'wiretap' furor
THE MEMO: GOP breaks from Trump in 'wiretap' furor
By Niall Stanage - THE HILL
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) says a nuclear war with Russia is a real possibility the U.S. should prepare for.
"For a long time, Russia and the United States had this sort of mutual agreement, mutually assured destruction," he said Friday on CNN's "New Day."
"If they shot their weapons at us, we'd shoot our weapons at them and therefore a nuclear war was unlikely to happen. But what Russia now says is that they will quote, 'escalate to de-escalate.' They are willing to use nuclear weapons to de-escalate a conventional attack. I think that the problem here is that we don't really have a plan to deal with that."
Moulton said he can imagine scenarios where the Trump administration must respond to Russian use of nuclear weapons.
READ MORE: http://thehill.com/news/administration/324...
By Niall Stanage - THE HILL
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) says a nuclear war with Russia is a real possibility the U.S. should prepare for.
"For a long time, Russia and the United States had this sort of mutual agreement, mutually assured destruction," he said Friday on CNN's "New Day."
"If they shot their weapons at us, we'd shoot our weapons at them and therefore a nuclear war was unlikely to happen. But what Russia now says is that they will quote, 'escalate to de-escalate.' They are willing to use nuclear weapons to de-escalate a conventional attack. I think that the problem here is that we don't really have a plan to deal with that."
Moulton said he can imagine scenarios where the Trump administration must respond to Russian use of nuclear weapons.
READ MORE: http://thehill.com/news/administration/324...
