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struggle4progress

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Sun Aug 20, 2017, 01:44 PM Aug 2017

Thinks About Nuclear Annihilation a Lot --- But Doesnt Know Much

By
Margaret Hartmann

Earlier this month, Americans had a chance to examine what was arguably the scariest question of the 2016 campaign: do you really want Donald Trump to have the nuclear codes?

... John Trump’s nephew mainly mentions what he learned from him about nuclear weapons – which is basically, that they’re bad. "My uncle used to tell me about nuclear before nuclear was nuclear," Trump told the Boston Globe in 2015. "He would tell me, 'There are things that are happening that could be potentially so bad for the world in terms of weaponry' " ...

... before Trump was inaugurated, Mother Jones looked at Trump’s many public remarks about nuclear war and noted that he’s often spoken as if he thinks nuclear war is inevitable ...

This is a frightening thing to hear (Trump has admitted “Look, I’m very much a fatalist,”) but as the New York Daily News reports, over the years he has actually laid out what he believes is the path to our salvation. Unsurprisingly, it involves Trump singlehandedly saving humanity with his superior negotiation skills ...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/trump-thinks-about-nukes-a-lot-doesnt-know-much-about-them.html

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