Donald Trump, nuclear weapons, and the ominous tick of the Doomsday Clock

[MountCleaners]

"The eyebrow-raiser didn’t come out of nowhere, following as it did directly on the heels of Vladimir Putin’s pledge to build a new Russian weapons systems. But it was a characteristically jumbled, counterintuitive thought—not what one hopes to see in terms of nuclear-weapons policy. (Trump reportedly double-downed on the build-up claim according to Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC. She claimed that he told her: "Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.&quot It was of a pattern, too, part of a string of confounding—sometimes terrifyingly so—statements about nuclear capabilities. The Bulletin must’ve thought: Since the Cold War, has the need for a reminder of the potential for atomic catastrophe ever seemed simultaneously so essential and so redundant? "


http://chicagoist.com/2017/01/23/donald_trump_nuclear_weapons_and_th.php

[nycbos]

1. Major Kong Rides the Bomb

[ffr]

2. So what if it moves 5 minutes this way or that. What's a few minutes?!