The article claims the President requested the drastic increase of nuclear warheads following a meeting with his national security team, where he was presented with graphs showing the decline of US warheads since the 1960s.
“President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest-ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room,” writes the author.