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Right Now, Trump Can Start a Nuclear War
One person
should not have
this power
o livia a lperstein
Right now, Donald
Trump could start a nu-
clear war on a whim,
and no one could stop
him.
Under any circum-
stances, the prospect of
nuclear war is terrify-
ing, the deadly consequences ir-
reversible. Yet with a single order,
the president — any president —
could effectively declare a nuclear
war that would wipe out entire na-
tions, including our own.
More worrying still, our current
president has shown an alarming
willingness to engage in aggres-
sion instead of diplomacy — par-
ticularly towards nations like Iran
and China, as well as countries
whose citizens have now been
banned from traveling to the U.S.
under an overbroad, dog-whistle
executive order.
Trump has almost gleefully ex-
ercised his right to threaten nucle-
ar war.
He made boastful remarks
about nuclear might throughout
his campaign. And just recently,
he called for a new push to put
by
America at the “top of the pack”
when it comes to nuclear weapons
capability (as though we weren’t
already).
Going against decades of prec-
edent, not to mention hard-won
diplomatic
treaties
reached with countries
like Russia and Iran,
Trump has enthusiasti-
cally declared that we
should expand, not re-
duce, our nuclear arse-
nal.
Already, just a tiny
ma and Nagasaki, or the devasta-
tion after the nuclear power plant
leak at Fukushima, should warn
us against the danger of nuclear
fallout. The disaster at Three Mile
Island wasn’t exactly a small lab
accident, either.
It’s almost impossible to compre-
hend millions of people being oblit-
erated from the face of the earth si-
multaneously, in the blink of an eye.
Especially at the whim of just one
American who happens to have ac-
cess to a certain red button.
That’s why Representative Ted
If we take our nation’s
responsibility as a leader of the free
world seriously, it’s our duty to protect
people from the horrors of war, famine,
poverty, genocide, and nuclear fallout.
But there will be no place to go for any
survivors of a nuclear disaster.
amount of our nuclear stockpile
would be enough to blow up the
world several times over. We’d
probably even have enough left
over to decimate most of the sev-
en Earth-like planets in the Trap-
pist-1 solar system that NASA
recently discovered.
Surely the horrors at Hiroshi-
Lieu and Senator Ed Markey have
introduced legislation prohibiting
the sitting president from unilater-
ally declaring nuclear war without
a prior act of Congress. They call
it the Restricting First Use of Nu-
clear Weapons Act of 2017.
“Nuclear war poses the gravest
risk to human survival,” Markey
warned in a joint statement intro-
ducing this legislation. Unfortu-
nately, Trump insists on “main-
taining the option of using nuclear
weapons first in a conflict.”
“In a crisis with another nu-
clear-armed country,” the senator
went on to explain, “this policy
drastically increases the risk of
unintended nuclear escalation.”
As so many people have said,
we only have one planet. Billions
of people live here — and no-
where else in the universe.
If we take our nation’s respon-
sibility as a leader of the free
world seriously, it’s our duty to
protect people from the horrors
of war, famine, poverty, genocide,
and nuclear fallout. But there will
be no place to go for any survivors
of a nuclear disaster.
I don’t know about you, but I
don’t even watch post-apocalyptic
TV shows. I certainly don’t want
to find myself living in the middle
of one.
No one person on this planet
should be able to make a decision
that will send millions of people
instantaneously to their deaths.
That’s genocide.
Killing off our entire planet?
That’s just inhuman.
Olivia Alperstein is the deputy
director of communications and
policy at Progressive Congress.
Distributed by OtherWords.org.