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Business Insider: How the US’s nuclear weapons compare to Russia’s

Published Sept. 28, 2016 at 5:58 pm

A file picture taken in Brest harbor, western France, on September 21, 2004, shows the Vepr Russian nuclear submarine of the Project 971 Shchuka-B type, or Akula-class (Shark) by NATO classification , the same type as the Nerpa Russian nuclear submarine.

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At Sept. 26 night’s debate, Republican candidate and businessman Donald Trump said “Russia has been expanding their” nuclear weapons, adding that “they have a much newer capability than we do.”

But according to Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk, although Russia may have updated its missiles and warheads more recently, the idea that Moscow has better capabilities is “almost certainly not true.”