Article snippet: Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Donald Trump attacked NBC News on Wednesday, dismissing as ‘‘pure fiction’’ an explosive report that he had sought a massive increase in the nation’s nuclear arsenal. On Twitter, Trump also raised the possibility that he would support stripping the broadcast licenses of news networks that report what he believes to be inaccurate information. The tweets came after NBC News reported that Trump purportedly told senior national security advisers during a meeting last summer that he favored what amounted to nearly a tenfold increase in nuclear weapons. Trump has previously challenged NBC’s reporting on the meeting, including a revelation that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson referred to the president as a ‘‘moron’’ after the meeting and considered resigning from the Cabinet. Tillerson said during a news conference that he never thought of quitting, but he did not confirm or deny making the remark about the president when directly asked about it by a reporter. The State Department’s spokeswoman subsequently denied that Tillerson had made that comment. NBC reported that Trump’s reaction over the nuclear stockpile came after senior advisers showed him information charting its steady decline in numbers since the 1960s during the meeting at the Pentagon in July. The report comes as Trump is preparing for an 11-day trip to Asia, where he... Link to the full article to read more