The United States has plans to increase the number of nuclear weapons, writes the Huffington Post referring to available to the edition of the draft nuclear doctrine of the US capital.

A document named "nuclear posture Review" (Nuclear Posture Review) composed in the Pentagon. He determines the policy in the nuclear field, and the concept of the construction of the nuclear forces of the country for a period of five to ten years.

According to the text of the project, the administration of President Donald trump wants to increase the number of nuclear warheads of low power in order " to strengthen nuclear deterrence ". The authors of the doctrine do not mention about the fact that the United States has already placed more than 1000 ammunition of low power. Technically "low power" and had atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, emphasizes the Huffington Post. In the end, these bombings then lost the lives of more than two hundred thousand people.

"and at the same time, the United States has reduced the number of nuclear weapons and its importance in the armed forces, other countries, including Russia and China moved in the opposite direction,"
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