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Trump is saying a whole lot of nothing because this program has already begun under Obama in order to maintain nuclear parity with Russia and China (hence Putin's reply that Trump's comment was not out of line). The danger of nuclear war is not necessarily high from the US or Russia because MAD makes nuclear weapons impractical but from rogue nations such as North Korea that have nothing to lose.