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kpete

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Wed Jan 3, 2018, 11:16 PM Jan 2018

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists editor: Trump N. Korea tweets are existential threat to humanity

The editor in chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said he believes there is "a danger" to President Trump's tweets on North Korea.

"They increase the probability that North Korea will misinterpret normal military exercises as an attack and respond with force. This could result in a back-and-forth series of military actions that might — actually, really — lead to worldwide thermonuclear war and the end of the human experiment," John Mecklin said, according to Poynter.

"This is a real possibility. This is why President Trump's tweets about North Korea are, in my opinion, an existential threat to humanity."


http://thehill.com/homenews/media/367190-bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists-editor-trumps-tweets-on-north-korea-are

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists editor: Trump N. Korea tweets are existential threat to humanity (Original Post) kpete Jan 2018 OP
Creating an 'existential threat to humanity' has to violate the Twitter TOS, right? htuttle Jan 2018 #1
Only if they can't make money off your insanity. PSPS Jan 2018 #3
No prob. All that matters is that twitter makes money. They don't care about humanity. PSPS Jan 2018 #2
What does he know? kidding triron Jan 2018 #4
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