Do you agree with Donald Trump that starting a new nuclear arms race is prudent?

[ismnotwasm]

5. Hmmm....oh. No.

But I was musing on how many, you know, we actual NEED, and wonder how spending billions of dollars on a new Cold War is going to fly through congress--any congress

Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. government spent at least $8.8 trillion in present-day terms[6] on nuclear weapons, including platforms development (aircraft, rockets and facilities), command and control, maintenance, waste management and administrative costs.[7] It is estimated that, since 1945, the United States produced more than 70,000 nuclear warheads, which is more than all other nuclear weapon states combined. The Soviet Union/Russia has produced approximately 55,000 nuclear warheads since 1949, France built 1110 warheads since 1960, the United Kingdom built 835 warheads since 1952, China built about 600 warheads since 1964, and other nuclear powers built fewer than 500 warheads all together since they developed their first nuclear weapons.[8] Until November 1962, the vast majority of U.S. nuclear tests were aboveground. After the acceptance of the Partial Test Ban Treaty, all testing was relegated underground, in order to prevent the dispersion of nuclear fallout.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States


Another facinating set of information

http://gizmodo.com/5899569/how-many-nukes-would-it-take-to-blow-up-the-entire-planet