Nuclear security experts alarmed by Trump's rhetoric

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s erratic stance on nuclear weapons has raised the alarm among American nuclear experts, according to a report.

The New York businessman has questioned the motive behind Washington’s large nuclear arsenal if it cannot use them. Trump has also pledged to build a military “so strong and powerful, and so respected, we’re not going to have to nuke anybody.”

Trump further astounded Republican and Democratic experts this week, after it was revealed by the MSNBC that he asked officials at a national security meeting to explain why the US could not use its nuclear weapons.

“This is the most dangerous thing that he has said, among many dangerous and stupid things,” Mark Fitzpatrick, a US State Department veteran who worked on nonproliferation issues for 26 years, told The Hill.

During the primary campaign, Trump appeared to have no knowledge about America’s so-called nuclear triad; the US military’s…

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