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The terrifying prospect of Donald Trump with nuclear weapons
The world's most astonishing and beneficial achievement of the past 70 years is not something humanity did but something it avoided doing: using nuclear weapons. After the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan during World War II, it was entirely plausible to think they were just a mild preview of how future conflicts would be fought. But since then, these devices have been strictly off-limits to actual use.
If Donald Trump becomes president, though, the exclusion may expire. In a campaign that appears to be systematically engineered to disqualify him from consideration for any position of responsibility, nothing comes close to his pronouncements on nuclear weapons. They combine ignorance, nonchalance, naivete and irresponsibility in quantities never before seen in a major-party nominee.
His alarming inclination gained new attention when MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reported that a foreign policy expert who briefed Trump said the candidate asked him repeatedly, "Why can't we use nuclear weapons?"
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