Arms race

Trump Says U.S. Would ‘Outmatch’ Rivals in a New Nuclear Arms Race

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Friday welcomed a new nuclear weapons arms race with Russia, vowing in an off-camera interview with a television host that America would “outmatch” any adversary. The comment came one day after he said in a post on Twitter that the United States should “strengthen and expand” its own nuclear capabilities.

The president-elect escalated his comments about nuclear weapons with the show of bravado during a brief, off-air telephone conversation from his estate in Florida, according to Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.