The Trump team promises a resumption of nuclear bomb testing. If he does, other nuclear powers will follow.
Democrats continue to diddle around a week since The Debate fiasco. They still are undecided whether to fish or cut bait.
Michael Moore asks the inciteful question whether you would get in a car with Biden and then hand him the keys.
That seems to me to be an exceedingly low bar for determining if the man is fit to be president.
I mean this is a guy who admits he can only work from 10 to 4 and must be in bed by 8 pm.
That is a work schedule most of working America would certainly like to have.
It is not acceptable for a president of the United States.
The indecisiveness of the Democrats over whether to dump Biden only increases the dangerous likelihood of a second Trump administration.
Trump’s team is now calling for a resumption of nuclear bomb tests.
So that sucks.
Russian has already withdrawn its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
However, they say they will still adhere to the provisions so long as other nations also comply with the conditions of the Treaty.
A Trump administration resumption of testing will open the flood gates to a new phase in the of a nuclear arms race and the Cold War 2.0.
A U.S. resumption of nuclear testing would certainly result in other nuclear nations testing their bombs.
I was 15 when Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev signed a treaty banning above ground nuclear tests in 1963.
Growing up in Los Angeles, we were unofficial downwinders from the Nevada nuclear testing site. Strontium 90, a product of nuclear fallout got into the milk supply that all kids my age drank. Nuclear clouds from the test 300 miles away hung over the L.A. basin for weeks at a time.
I have no doubt I was radiated.
The government provides no data on the effects of above ground nuclear testing among our own people or on people around the globe.
Shortly after the signing of the above ground testing ban my mother contracted a form of Leukemia and died from it a decade later.
Leukemia is a common result of exposure to nuclear radiation and fallout.
So the whole issue is kind of personal.
The end to above ground nuclear testing by the U.S. didn’t happen until 1996.
In the 30 years between November 9, 1962, and September 23, 1992, the United States conducted 760 deep underground nuclear tests.
In addition to the threat of an escalating arms race, the resumption of nuclear testing underground by a Trump administration is not without health risks.
As Russia warns of the rising risk of nuclear war, and relations with the United States sink into a deep freeze, communities close to the vast Soviet-era nuclear testing site in northern Kazakhstan have a message for leaders: "Let us be a lesson."
Hundreds of tests were carried out between 1949 and 1989 on the barren steppe near the city of Semey, formerly known as Semipalatinsk, close to the Kazakh-Russian border. The effect of radiation had a devastating impact on the environment and local people's health, and continues to affect lives there today.
The need to prevent a second Trump administration is obvious.
The failure of the Democrats to so far offer an effective alternative is tragic.