http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/03/3745683/christie-veteran-diplomacy/
“As president, how would you respond to this issue: we have a nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but we’re not living by it,” said Thomas, adding that he was deeply concerned that President Obama has proposed spending hundreds of billions of dollars upgrading and modernizing the nation’s arsenal of nuclear weapons. Thomas told Christie he thinks that money should be spent instead on domestic needs like fixing aging roads and bridges, and asked if the presidential hopeful would resolve international crises through diplomacy or warfare.
Christie said that he wants to massively increase the number of people serving in the US armed forces as well as their conventional weapons stockpile, lamenting that the size of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corp have shrunk over the past decade. Thomas later told ThinkProgress he found the response “very concerning,” especially because Christie did not mention the use of diplomacy in his response.
“I don’t think we should be spending that much money on weapons we can’t afford and that we can never use,” he said. “We should be using that money for affordable housing and healthcare and education and job training. We shouldn’t be putting it in the back pockets of Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Boeing.”