President Donald Trump said on Friday he's ordered two nuclear submarines to move to the "appropriate regions" in response to what he called "highly provocative statements" from the deputy chair of Russia's security council,

The US and Russia control the vast majority of the world’s nuclear weaponry, and Washington keeps nuclear-armed submarines on permanent patrol as part of its so-called nuclear triad of land, sea and air-launched weapons. Trump told Newsmax that Medvedev’s “nuclear” reference prompted him to reposition US nuclear submarines.

US President Donald Trump says he has ordered two nuclear submarines to "be positioned in the appropriate regions" in response to "highly provocative" comments by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.