Will Trump And Putin Start Another Nuclear Arms Race?

    The United States and Russia have the ability to destroy earth many times over. It was reported that in a conversation with Putin, Trump asserted that the Obama administration negotiated a nuclear weapons reduction treaty that is not good for the United States. Trump felt he could negotiate a better deal.    
     If two enemies are each carrying a stick of dynamite, and that is the deterrent they use to keep back the other, what does it matter if they have one stick of dynamite, or a million sticks, when one is enough to kill the other person? The number of nuclear weapons Russia and the U.S. have in their arsenals far exceeds the requirements needed to destroy the other side and the entire world. The more nuclear weapons there are, the greater the risk of annihilation.
     If Trump really had that conversation with Putin, then it is unfortunate Trump could not see the bigger picture, which is not which side has more of a perceived advantage in the nuclear reduction treaty. The bigger picture is the enormous threat nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons proliferation present to the survival of human life and most life on this planet, and the critical need to reduce this threat.