“These weapons are incredible,” Trump said. “We have to be very careful about letting somebody build them. … You have to be very judicious, but you have to be very careful. … it’s a hard thing to give away that kind of technology, and I don’t think this would ever happen, but, you know, those people that you get that technology, they can someday turn on you. You know, that is possible.”
It IS a big step.
Not like launching an unprovoked war of choice with no goal or plan against an adversary over whom you basically have no leverage just because you don’t like the last guy who negotiated with them.