Washington—US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines Friday in an extraordinary escalation of what had been an online war
of words with a Russian official over Ukraine and tariffs.
Trump’s post on his Truth Social platform abruptly took that spat into the very real – and rarely publicized – sphere of nuclear forces. Trump did not say in his post whether he meant nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed submarines. He also did not elaborate on the exact deployment locations, which are kept secret by the US military.
Trump’s remarks came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had started mass producing its hypersonic nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile, and could deploy them to Belarus, a close Russian ally neighboring Ukraine, by year-end.
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