Nuclear News Roundup Aug 09, 2017
Donald Trump, the current U.S. President, has been trying to exert pressure on China to curb North Korean nuclear weapons development. China is the main trading partner for N.K. and, since N.K. and China share a border, China definitely has a major stake in developments on the Korean peninsula. China has asked the North Koreans to suspend their missile and nuclear warhead program to little effect.
Both the U.S. and Russia have thousands of nuclear warheads and three types of delivery systems. Both nations have nuclear armed submarines, nuclear bombers and nuclear tipped ICBMs. Both countries are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade their nuclear arsenals and their delivery systems.