Trump bragged to a reporter that he built a secret new nuclear weapon, according to bombshell book [View all]
Source: Business Insider
Trump bragged to a reporter that he built a secret new nuclear weapon, according to bombshell bookRyan Pickrell 10 hours ago
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While it is unclear to what Trump was referring, one theory is that he was referring to the W76-2 nuclear warhead, a new warhead for a low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile that was deployed earlier this year.
Trump likes to boast about US military might and has talked several times this year about the development of what he calls a new "super duper missile," which reportedly turned out to be a new hypersonic glide vehicle being developed for future hypersonic weaponry.
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Tensions between the US and North Korea brought the two countries to the brink of war in 2017 and had former Secretary of Defense James Mattis sleeping in his clothes and praying at a local cathedral on the regular, according to the book.
During more recent discussions of those heightened tensions, Trump told Woodward: "I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody's ever had in this country before."
"We have stuff that you haven't even seen or heard about," he continued. "We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before. There's nobody — what we have is incredible."..........................................
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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-told-reporter-he-built-a-secret-nuclear-weapon-book-2020-9
I note that the bragging included the word "I"--as if Trump himself built the new system!
......... "I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody's ever had in this country before."..............
U.S. President Donald Trump waits to speak by phone with the Saudi Arabia's King Salman in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 29, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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