There are no “right hands” to be in possession of nuclear weapons. But Donald Trump clearly possesses utterly "wrong hands” and should be lawfully removed from an office that gives him the power to destroy humanity.

The nuclear arsenal Trump currently controls includes some 1,700 deployed nuclear warheads, most of them with an explosive force of 100 to 800 kilotons, six to 50 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. If used in a large-scale attack on Russia, they could kill more than 100 million people in the first afternoon. And a Russian counterattack would kill at least that many here in the United States.

Those who survived the initial fires and explosions would find themselves living in a wasteland that we cannot imagine. None of the things we need to keep ourselves alive would be available. There would be no electric grid, no cell phones, no internet, no food distribution system, no system for distributing gasoline or natural gas or heating oil, no law and order. And in the months following the initial attacks most of those who survived those attacks would also die—from starvation, epidemic disease, radiation sickness, and exposure to the elements.

The disaster would not be confined to the US and Russia. The smoke from burning cities in both countries would loft enormous quantities of smoke into the upper atmosphere, blocking out the sun and dropping temperatures across the planet an average of 18°F. In the interior regions of North America and Eurasia temperatures would drop 45-50°F, food production would plummet, and the vast majority of the human race would starve. In the first two years alone, three-quarters of humanity—6 billion people—would die.

Also see this great podcast episode about this from It Could Happen Here with Robert from Behind The Bastards.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/fear-of-a-nuclear-january-6th-347667836/

  • OneCardboardBox
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    10 days ago

    To be honest, I’m worried that anyone could have access to the American nuclear arsenal.

    Suppose that some event occurs, and one of the possible responses by the US government is a nuclear strike. I dunno what, let’s say that Madagascar launches a rocket that’s indistinguishable from a nuclear ICBM targeting Florida. In a matter of minutes:

    • The president is surrounded by security and hauled off to a military command. Their family and staff probably don’t get the same travel arrangements.
    • Some analyst explains the problem and that there is a short period of time to act decisively
    • A panel of generals who have spent their entire military careers doing nothing but planning for nuclear war and disassociating themselves from the actual civilian deaths it would incur enter the room as “advisors”.
    • The president now has X minutes to decide if America is so important as a concept that everyone in the world deserves to die horribly if that concept is threatened, while surrounded by strangers whose job is death.

    I have no confidence that any American president in this situation, dementia-ridden fascist or not, would say no.