Putin knows the USA is replacing it's nuclear arsenal over time. This is a strong man lie about a new nuclear race. Neither Putin or Trump can afford it.
By Thomas Watkins
Hidden underground in steel-and-concrete silos (click here) across rural America, more than 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles point to the skies, poised for launch -- and ready to obliterate cities across the world.
First designed in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War, the Minuteman nuclear weapons are starting to show their age, and replacement parts are difficult to find for the weapons designed in an analog age....
...Over the next 20 years, the U.S. Air Force will switch out the entirety of its Minuteman III fleet with an as-yet-unnamed new missile known only as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD).The Air Force estimates the cost of the GBSD, to be introduced late in the 2020s and phased in over the following decade, will be around $86 billion over the missiles' life cycle of about 50 years....
...The Air Force "doesn't know how we are going to afford this," said Laicie Heeley, a nuclear expert at the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan anti-nuclear proliferation think tank in Washington....
It is a lie.
The return to the Cold War and mass production of nuclear weapons is a lie.
No such thing will occur. No country can afford it.
Putin lies. The "Strong Man" is a myth.
...The complex system (click here) has been updated and enhanced over the years, but is aging and due for replacement. That replacement is the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), a follow-on system designed to incorporate emerging strategic missile technologies to increase performance, security, nuclear safety and surety while reducing life cycle costs and modernizing the infrastructure. GBSD represents a recapitalization of the full weapons system.
Northrop Grumman is ideally suited to design this system....
