Resuming
Oh good, Trump is restarting the doomsday machine.
Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump posted.
“Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years.”
Trump appeared to be sending a message to both Xi, who has more than doubled China’s nuclear warhead arsenal over the past five years, and to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has tested two new nuclear-powered weapons over recent days.
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Trump’s decision follows a rapid expansion by China of its nuclear stockpile in recent years, and came just after Russia announced what it called successful tests of the nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile and nuclear-powered torpedo.
Could all you god damn fools just stop?
He really is a moron, isn’t he? And a moron with a tough guy delusion about himself. I guess he identifies as a tough guy.
Sometime in the last few years I read “The Doomsday Machine” by Daniel Ellsberg. At some point he recalled a discussion about how many nuclear bombs would be needed to deter an opponent who was rational enough to *be* deterred. IIRC the conclusion was less than 100 at a time when both the US and the Soviet Union had thousands.
Trump proving simultaneously that he has, and is, the biggest dick.
I wonder if anyone told him that just testing bombs makes the total number of bombs go down.