Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Washington-based think tank Defense Priorities, said the social media exchange was an “unhelpful and a very risky way to do international diplomacy.”
The U.S. typically has four or fi ve submarines on “hard alert” at any time,Kavanagh said, downplaying the likelihood that Trump significantly changed U.S. nuclear posture.
“The likelihood is there are already nuclear submarines positioned inlocations where they could strike Russia if necessary,” she said.
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