I find this terrifying. Any insight, anyone?

[mburbank]

I find that last statement absurd, and I'm fairly left and a pacifist.

More to the point, our Nuclear arsenal, designed to counter the soviets, is by far the largest on the planet, and we no longer confront anyone in terms of an all out nuclear war. our arsenal could destroy the planet several times over and is beyond sufficient for retalliation against 'rouge states' and is a dubious deterent against sucidal terrorists in any case. So what argument could possibly be made for a build up? Is this some long range fear of China or some other thing I don't know about.