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January 10, 2018

Report: Trump Admin Planning to Loosen Restrictions on Use of Nuclear Weapons
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The Guardian is reporting the Trump administration is planning to loosen
the restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons and develop a nuclear
warhead for U.S. Trident missiles. This nuclear policy was outlined in a
draft seen by a former Obama arms control official. It's significantly
more hawkish than the previous administration's nuclear policy. This
comes as President Trump has repeatedly threatened to deploy nuclear
weapons against North Korea, proposed building up the United States'
nuclear arsenal and has reportedly asked, about nuclear weapons, "If we
had them, why can't we use them?"


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