Donald Trump did not know UK had nuclear weapons, Bolton says in new book

US president reportedly said: ‘Oh, are you a nuclear power?’ during meeting with Theresa May in a way that was not a joke, Bolton recalls

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Donald Trump was unaware that the UK had its own nuclear weapons, according to the former US national security adviser John Bolton.

The president’s lack of knowledge of the nuclear capabilities of his country’s closest ally is one of many examples Bolton gives of the president’s ignorance of geopolitics in his memoir The Room Where it Happened.

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