Trump Says U.S. Would ‘Outmatch’ Rivals in a New Nuclear Arms Race

The New York Times has reported on Russian President Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump's recent statements effectively announcing a new nuclear arm race between the two countries:

“The statements made by President-elect Trump undermine decades of work the United States and its allies have been involved in to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles and to prevent the additional proliferation of nuclear weapons,” said Byron L. Dorgan, a former senator from North Dakota and a board member at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “A nuclear arms race puts everyone on this planet in greater danger.”