Steven Pifer, senior fellow in Foreign Policy, discusses the most recent Nuclear Posture Review, in which the Trump administration took a drastically different approach than the previous Obama administration. Pifer discusses whether the U.S. should rely more heavily on nuclear weapons, whether the United States needs small nuclear weapons, which new nuclear systems were proposed in the review, and the affordability of Trump’s plans.

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