{"id":123320,"date":"2017-10-12T05:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123320"},"modified":"2017-10-12T05:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:35:20","slug":"pentagon-has-no-plans-to-boost-size-of-nuclear-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/12\/pentagon-has-no-plans-to-boost-size-of-nuclear-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon has no plans to boost size of nuclear arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123322\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-The_Pentagon_January_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123322\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-The_Pentagon_January_2008.jpg\" alt=\"The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, taken from an airplane in January 2008 (Photo By David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL - The Pentagon, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-The_Pentagon_January_2008.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-The_Pentagon_January_2008-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, taken from an airplane in January 2008 (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=4891272\">Photo By David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL &#8211; The Pentagon, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Pentagon has no current plans to increase the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it can barely sustain the existing force, which is decades old and is in some respects almost decrepit.<\/p>\n<p>The arsenal is far from being in the &#8220;perfect shape&#8221; that President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to see under his watch.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the government is planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a top-to-bottom &#8220;modernization,&#8221; or replacement of the three major categories of nuclear weapons &#8211; as well as their command and control systems &#8211; in coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>Trump denied that he has called for a big increase in nuclear weapons. He said he thinks the U.S. already has enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Pentagon has no current plans to increase the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In fact, it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":123322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16,17],"tags":[9869,27443,1277],"class_list":["post-123320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","category-news-w","tag-donald-trump","tag-nuclear-arsenal","tag-pentagon","mauthors-robert-burns","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}