Quoting from the article - "The basic matter at issue is money."

Perhaps there is another important philosophical issue that we, along with Germany, need to discuss.

Should we both join Britain and France in building our own nuclear deterrent - even if small by comparison to Russia's and China's?  After all, it was when the game was young - during the election campaign I believe - that Trump declared that rather than rely on the US to come to its aid, perhaps Japan and South Korea should think about getting their own nuclear weapons.  If those two countries decide to go that route maybe we should join the party!