Jason: Pentagon Officials and Issue Thursday

jason: The president-elect's statement also followed his meetings a day earlier with top Pentagon officials and defence contractors, according to The Chronicle Herald. Trump, who is spending the holidays at his palatial private club in Florida, did not expand on the actions he wants the U.S. to take or say why he raised the issue Thursday. His comments on Twitter came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said strengthening his country's nuclear capabilities should be a chief military objective in the coming year. Spokesman Jason Miller said the president-elect was referring to the threat of nuclear proliferation particularly to and among terrorist organizations and unstable and rogue regimes. If Trump were to seek an expansion of the nuclear stockpiles, it would mark a sharp shift in U.S. national security policy. Miller said Trump sees modernizing the nation's deterrent capability as a vital way to pursue peace through strength. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.