The top military official who runs the US nuclear arsenal warned that China and Russia are modernising their nuclear weapons and capabilities faster than the US, saying during a congressional hearing that if it does not start investing more in nuclear defence and infrastructure, the country will be "at risk of losing credibility in the eyes of our adversaries".Russia is "aggressively engaged" in "conventional nuclear capability development and modernisation, and are now roughly 80 per cent complete while we are at zero," Admiral Charles Richard, the head of US Strategic Command, which oversees the US nuclear arsenal, said."It is easier to describe what they are not modernising - nothing - than what they are, which is pretty much everything," Admiral Richard said.
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