Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations left behind an ambiguity about his plans for using nuclear weapons. A day or so after a nuclear weapon was used during wartime, on Hiroshima, a Herald Tribune editorialist considered the “still hardly credible fact” that a “small instrument,” dropped on a “dense population center,” brought about “what … Continue reading …..Trump and the Art of Irrational Provocation….
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…The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea…
........parsing our way ever closer to justifying a first strike............begs the question............. On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation? By Evan Osnos The New Yorker A guard at the D.M.Z. This summer, the prospect of a nuclear confrontation between the United States and … Continue reading …The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea…
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HOLY CRAP KIDS!.... On the day of North Korea’s first atomic test in 2006, aides to President George W. Bush began phoning foreign capitals to reassure allies startled by Pyongyang’s surprising feat. The test, aides said, had been mostly a failure: a botched, 1-kiloton cry for attention from a regime that had no warheads or … Continue reading ……of horseshoes and hand grenades…….
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