Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called on Congress to stop President-elect Donald Trump unleashing a nuclear arms race.
Sanders took to Twitter late Friday to respond to Trump’s recent statement that the US should “greatly expand and strengthen its nuclear capability.”
“Congress can’t allow the Tweeter in Chief to start a nuclear arms race,” Sanders tweeted. “It’s a miracle a nuclear weapon hasn’t been used in war since 1945.”
The senator further wrote that former presidents, both Republican and Democratic, have realized that “our goal must be to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, not expand them.”
On Friday, Trump was asked by MSNBC reporter to clarify an earlier tweet regarding the expansion of America’s nuclear arsenal. In response Trump said, “Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”
Trump’s remarks were an apparent response to comments by Russian President…