Why you (and Donald Trump) should care about Nuclear Weapons

[zebonaut]

[Major Nikon]

1. Yeah, just what we need. A presidunce whose best excuse is "He started it!"

[Journeyman]

2. I was in Minot, in '73, during the Yom Kippur War when Nixon took us to DefCon 3 . . .

Very few of my friends and family outside the military knew anything about the ramp up to confrontation.

What I learned was simple, and quite eye opening:

"In the nuclear age, the difference between the Home Front and the Front Line is simply a matter of perception: If you know we're at war, you are too."

Ultimately, all we have left is Viktor Frankl's Challenge:

[center]"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
So let us be alert -- alert in a two-fold sense:

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."