Trump's nuclear expantion proposal ‘frightening’: Chomsky

Renowned American philosopher and political scientist Noam Chomsky says he was “frightened” by President-elect Donald Trump’s comments on “strengthening and expanding” nuclear capabilities in the US.

Chomsky, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said Trump’s recent tweet about nuclear weapons was “one of the most frightening things I’ve seen recently.”

The scholar has been a vocal critic of the incoming president, comparing his campaign proposals and rhetoric to Nazi Germany.

He also criticized the Russian President Vladimir Putin for his planned nuclear buildup.

On Thursday, Trump called for the country to greatly expand its nuclear weapons capabilities until the world “comes to its senses,” an apparent reversal of a decades-long reduction of the US atomic arsenal.

“The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,”…

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