You have to hand it to Trump & Co. They are the best, the absolute best, at envisioning an apocalypse. Take any domain — justice, education, pollution, global warming — and they already have a plan to take an emergency and turn it into a nightmare. They know how to accelerate and exacerbate any threat.
These types of people should sit at the Rand Corporation and ideate all day about how bad human kind could get so other smart, but less creative doom-sayers, could find ways to prevent their disaster wet dreams.
Allies of Donald J. Trump are proposing that the United States restart the testing of nuclear weapons in underground detonations should the former president be re-elected in November. A number of nuclear experts reject such a resumption as unnecessary and say it would threaten to end a testing moratorium that the world’s major atomic powers have honored for decades.
In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Robert C. O’Brien, a former national security adviser to Mr. Trump, urges him to conduct nuclear tests if he wins a new term. Washington, he wrote, “must test new nuclear weapons for reliability and safety in the real world for the first time since 1992.” Doing so, he added, would help the United States “maintain technical and numerical superiority to the combined Chinese and Russian nuclear stockpiles.”
Biden needs to run some Goldwater daisy ads. Maybe a few Boomers would change their votes based on this scenario alone.
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