and think that they can use them on Russia and the world will survive?
Obama and NATO are surrounding Russia and putting missle defense shields in some of those countries and have been doing this for over a year or more.
Don't they realize that if they use those mini nukes on Russia then Russia can still strike back from their other bases and submarines but will use the big ones.
That they are even thinking of using any type of nuclear weapons is the definition of insanity.
The people in the European nations that are involved with these actions are going to be the ones who will be destroyed first.
The US' roll of global hegemony is bringing us to this point and it's not doing this to protect our country or anyone else's, it's because the corporations and the banks want to make more money.
We aren't even trying to remove Assad from office because he's a threat to his people, but so that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries can build pipelines after he told them that they couldn't.
And of course for Israel so that they can be the only superpower in the Middle East.
Millions of people have been killed for greed and resources.
And while people are afraid of what Trump MIGHT DO they have been silent about the things that OBAMA HAS DONE
Why wasn't anyone asking him why he thinks that we need to spend $1 trillion on upgrading our nuclear weapons?
There's only one reason I can think of for doing that. It's because they are planning to use them.
Okay kids don't forget your duck and cover lessons.

does anyone hear the call of dissent emanating from the minority party?

How quickly Obama's declaration to spend $1 trillion to update and upgrade the US nuclear arsenal was forgotten in the current coverage of the nuclear insanity race!

In 2009, Barry declared:

The existence of thousands of nuclear weapons is the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War. No nuclear war was fought between the United States and the Soviet Union, but generations lived with the knowledge that their world could be erased in a single flash of light.... I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons....If we are serious about stopping the spread of these weapons, then we should put an end to the dedicated production of weapons-grade materials that create them.

By January 2016, Barry must have gotten the speech about How Things Are [see attached video]. Even the normally war-friendly Boston Globe had this to say:

President Obama has proposed a frighteningly wrongheaded plan to “modernize” our nuclear arsenal at the unfathomable cost of about $1 trillion over the next 30 years. Terror will never reach even 1 percent of our population. Nuclear “modernization” increases the prospect of true devastation....Obama’s proposed “modernization” increases our vulnerability, not our security. The first and most obvious reason is that it will certainly lead other countries to seek equivalent arsenals of their own. It is especially upsetting to Russia, which already feels under increasing American threat...China would surely match that escalation. If it does so, India will follow. Then Pakistan will jump into the race. It is a recipe for disaster.

So let's not leave Barry off the list of idiots with way too much power and no adult oversight. That asshole has done plenty of damage to America without risking nuclear annihilation.

edited for getting ahead of myself

He tweeted "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability". There are at least two ways to interpret that statement. The US can expand its capability by acquiring more weapons. Or the US can expand its capability by more effectively deploying existing weapons. Of course Democrats and the MSM immediately latched onto the first interpretation.

Likewise, Putin said "We are stronger now than any potential aggressor", which Democrats and the MSM immediately took to mean he was boasting that Russia was stronger than the US. What he meant, and what should be clear from his remarks, is that he wasn't including the US on the list of potential aggressors. Later reporting by the MSM parsed out the word "potential" and turned the statement into "We are stronger than any aggressor", thus making it seem he was threatening the US.

Fake news at its finest.