Waste of $1 trillion – nuclear weapons upgrade

Pathetic. Trump agrees to it and promotes it. Ohh and it started in the Obama Administration. From NPR, May, 2016: Obama also has put the U.S. on course to spend around $1 trillion on upgrading its nuclear arsenal over the next three decades

I'm not a pacifist but this is an absurdity. Immoral weapons which cannot be used. And even if you buy the line about deterrence (who exactly are we deterring?), well here's a good opinion piece from the NYT, October 26, 2016.

But what is required for deterrence? One hundred nuclear weapons could kill hundreds of millions of people in any nation. The close to 2,000 weapons now in the U.S. nuclear inventory would obliterate any adversary, and most of the world, as well.

President Obama has authorized a nuclear modernization program that would cost $1 trillion, that’s a “T,” over the next 30 years. This is unnecessary. Moreover, it will impose an increasing burden on the defense budget, making it difficult to maintain our conventional military superiority – the real guarantee of U.S. security. The next president should cut back nuclear modernization plans and use those funds to ensure that our more important conventional forces maintain their technological and quantitative superiority over all potential foes.

There's more if you hit the link, it's an excellent article.