In which Sen. Fischer misleadingly transforms an estimate into a near certainty: “… China is expanding its arsenal, but at a scale and speed that may be without precedent in world history: The Pentagon believes China plans to more than quadruple its nuclear stockpile by 2030….”
https://twitter.com/SenatorFischer/status/1483489193045250051
Last year, STRATCOM commander Adm. Charles Richard wrote and testified China could double its nuclear stockpile by decade’s end. At House and Senate armed services committee hearings, it was Republicans like Sen. Fischer who pushed him to say China intended to go even further.
By alarmingly claiming China’s nuclear expansion “may be without precedent in world history,” @SenatorFischer—who has never met a US nuclear weapon she didn't like, especially an ICBM—betrays her vast ignorance of her own country’s nuclear history.
In just one year (1945-46), the US nuclear stockpile nearly quadrupled from 2 to 9 atomic bombs, three years _before_ the Soviet Union even tested its first atomic bomb. From 1948-50, it soared nearly sixfold from 50 to 299 atomic bombs. But wait, there’s much, much more! 
From 1952-67, it increased an astonishing 3,616%, from 841 atomic bombs to 31,255 atomic and thermonuclear bombs and warheads. How was this possible? Because 18 members of Congress ignored the AEC and allowed the military to demand an unlimited number.
https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1482748020957528069?s=20
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