President Directs Pentagon to Test Nuclear Weapons: Concerns and Outrage Erupt
President directs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons, a pronouncement that jolts the senses. The immediate question that pops to mind is, why? We’ve poured exorbitant amounts of money into maintaining our nuclear arsenal, and the consensus seems to be that they function as intended. Do we really need to irradiate some remote island or an underground cavern to prove a point we’ve already made? The cost-benefit analysis here seems… off.
It’s hard not to remember the past, the way certain ideas tend to resurface. Take 2019, when the same individual floated the, shall we say, unconventional idea of altering hurricanes with nuclear bombs.… Continue reading
Matt Underwood