Noooo - Can't we learn the lessons of the past Investing money in weapons - any weapons, let alone nuclear missiles doesn't make anything better. Small arms kill more people of course - unless the nukes are fired - but the nukes cause superpower tension, cold war, proxy conflicts, support for dictators - and because the resources are not being spent on the (comparatively cheap) things that make a difference - clean water, rule of law, availability of credit for the poorest - conflict and suffering continue. It's become a matter of pride for Russia to demonstrate the status of a first class power. But no one but a fool (and we have had several of those in high places in recent years) could think otherwise. No one has asked me, but if they did I's suggest the thing that would most make that clear would be to claim as much moral high ground as possible by uncynical foreign policy, and devoting resources to making things better rather than worse. A new generation of nuclear missile doesn't come into that category