Since 2010, however, Russia, China, and North Korea have been engaged in steadily building up their forces with new nuclear arms and delivery systems, while Iran remains an outlier that many experts believe will eventually decide to build a nuclear arsenal in the next decade or sooner when restrictions outlined in the international nuclear deal expire. Thus the Obama administration based its strategic nuclear deterrence and warfare policies on the outdated assumption that the prospect of a U.S.-Russia military confrontation had been reduced sharply. The curtailment of nuclear forces by Obama was based on assessments-now considered false by many officials-that nuclear threats posed by Russia and other states had been lowered significantly, and that Moscow and Washington were no longer considered enemies.
nuclear forces was set by then-President Barack Obama in a 2010 review that called for reducing the role of nuclear weapons and the size of the arsenal. "I want modernization and rehabilitation… It's got to be in tip top shape," Trump said of the ageing U.S. nuclear arsenal during a meeting of national security officials July 20. Trump last summer called for sharply increasing the size of the U.S. The conclusions of the review are expected to be disclosed around the time President Trump delivers his state of union address to a joint session of Congress next month. nuclear forces called the Nuclear Posture Review. The new disclosure on Russia's arms buildup is among some of the details being studied by the Pentagon as part of a major review of U.S. The new assessment also suggests Russia is planning to blend its conventional forces with nuclear forces in future conflicts, further complicating the use of American nuclear arms as a deterrent to warfare. Russia violated the INF accord by testing an illegal ground-launched cruise missile. One official said the alarming expansion indicates Russia is preparing to break out of current nuclear forces constraints under arms treaties, including the 2010 New START and 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaties. In addition to expanding its warheads, Russia also is fortifying underground facilities for command and control during a nuclear conflict.
The 8,000 warheads will include both large strategic warheads and thousands of new low-yield and very low-yield warheads to circumvent arms treaty limits and support Moscow's new doctrine of using nuclear arms early in any conflict.
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