The Pentagon has released its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review

VOA: Pentagon Adding New Nuclear Capabilities, Keeping Nuclear Triad to Deter Attacks

PENTAGON — The Pentagon has released its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, adding nuclear capabilities and updating the United States’ current arsenal in order to deter nuclear attacks.

“What we’re trying to do is ensure that our diplomats and our negotiators are in a position to be listened to when we say we want to go forward on nonproliferation and arms control,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters ahead of the review’s release Friday. “You have to do that when you're in a position of persuasion, not of hoping.”

U.S. President Donald Trump said he ordered Mattis to conduct the Nuclear Posture Review within days of taking office last year.

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