President Donald Trump is often far too trusting of the KGB Red Banner Institute-trained manipulator, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Still, no one can legitimately accuse Trump of being foolish in the face of Putin’s nuclear weapons threat to the United States.

Flight tracking websites show that at least two aircraft transited this month from a nuclear weapons storage base in New Mexico to the Royal Air Force Lakenheath base in England. The aircraft were carrying B61-12 nuclear bombs. RAF Lakenheath is owned by the RAF but operated by the U.S. Air Force. It hosts two USAF F-15E squadrons and two F-35A fighter squadrons. All these aircraft can employ the B61-12. The transport aircraft kept their transponders activated to show their route, indicating that the Defense Department sought to send a message to Russia with these deliveries.

This weapons deployment was necessary as global nuclear threats rise.

Today, Russia has more than 4,300 nuclear warheads in service or reserve. China has about 600 warheads but is rapidly expanding its stockpile. North Korea has about 50 warheads. The U.S. has about 3,700 warheads. But while numbers matter, the centerpiece of effective nuclear deterrence is the ability to deter and defeat an adversary across the spectrum of prospective threats. The B61-12 addresses the specific threat of a Russian nuclear weapons attack against U.S. or allied targets in Europe using a small-yield nuclear weapon.

This isn’t the first time Trump has strengthened the U.S.’s nuclear deterrence against Russia. During his first term, Trump abandoned former President Barack Obama’s appeasement-minded approach by authorizing the Navy’s deployment of a new nuclear warhead, the W76-2, on its nuclear ballistic missile submarines. These weapons have a small yield of 5-7 kilotons and........

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