A Perilous Connection: Donald Trump and Nuclear War

Whistleblower explains the real reason Trump wants to use a nuclear weapon

Over the course of his war with Iran, President Donald Trump has made inflammatory remarks that many have suggested implied his intention to use nuclear weapons. Now a whistleblower from his first term warns that he “watched Donald Trump talk about nuclear weapons like they were presidential toys,” and that “he may be closer to playing with them than you think.”This is according to Miles Taylor, who served as deputy chief of staff at the Departm…

Alarm as Trump appears ‘one mood swing away’ from indulging ‘nuclear fantasies’: expert

Miles Taylor, who served as a senior Homeland Security official under the first Trump administration, warned Monday that President Donald Trump has spent years indulging in "nuclear fantasies," and that recent developments suggest Trump may be edging closer to acting on them.“Between Trump’s unchecked brinksmanship, possible nuclear proliferation to new countries, and broken treaties, you have a radioactive cocktail being stirred on the internat…

A Perilous Connection: Donald Trump and Nuclear War

“As to [nuclear war] dangers arising from an American president, the best protection is not to elect one.”-General Maxwell D. Taylor (ret.), 14 March 1976.[1] More than fifty years ago, retired USA four-star general Maxwell D. Taylor sent me a handwritten letter (copy attached hereto) concerning US presidential irrationality and nuclear war. At that time, […] The post A Perilous Connection: Donald Trump and Nuclear War appeared first on Modern D…