Kremlin, after Trump's submarine order, says everyone should be careful with nuclear rhetoric
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov played down the significance of Trump's comments, saying it was clear that US submarines were already on combat duty anyway. He said Moscow had no desire to get into a polemic with Trump on the issue.
Trump said on Friday he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in 'the appropriate regions' in response to remarks from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries.
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