Doomsday Clock Advanced Another 2 minutes?

[Aoi Magi]

Well it's not like Trump can launch them at will. There are a few level of buffers between him and the actual launch, and I don't think all of them are as insane.

[Anomalocaris]

Well it's not like Trump can launch them at will. There are a few level of buffers between him and the actual launch, and I don't think all of them are as insane.

I also thought there were several layers of sanity between trump and the White house.  But the fact that the establishment had worked to sabotage the opposition when the alternative is trump's finger on the button gives me little confidence the same establishment would not think that letting trump launch a few under a bombastic chest thumping cover story would be better than to mutiny against trump and there by exposing the bankruptcy of end of political spectrum that could have back a trump.

[John V]

Well it's not like Trump can launch them at will. There are a few level of buffers between him and the actual launch, and I don't think all of them are as insane.

Trump is no more likely to launch nuclear weapons than anyone else. But even if one thinks he is, the above is true. It was ridiculous during the campaign that the left acted like the president can just pull out his cell phone and launch.

[Minimalist]

How much more stupid can we (mankind) get?

Really?  In the aftermath of the last election you can still ask that question?


The sky's the limit with dumbness in 'Murrica, amigo.

[Mr Greene]

When Putin is trying to downplay the nuclear rhetoric you know we're in uncharted territory...

[Anomalocaris]

Well it's not like Trump can launch them at will. There are a few level of buffers between him and the actual launch, and I don't think all of them are as insane.

Trump is no more likely to launch nuclear weapons than anyone else. But even if one thinks he is, the above is true. It was ridiculous during the campaign that the left acted like the president can just pull out his cell phone and launch.

No, our officer corp is kept up to a very high Internal standards of levelheadedness, balanced grasp of reality, moral courage, and aloofness from domestic politics or secularism for all it senior officers, as examplified by lieutenant general Michael Flynn.

[Seraphina]

Well it's not like Trump can launch them at will. There are a few level of buffers between him and the actual launch, and I don't think all of them are as insane.

Actually, no. From the article below, a nuclear specialist states "There is no veto once the president has ordered a strike. The president and only the president has the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons."

To me, this is the most concerning thing about a president Trump. I wouldn't put it past him to order a strike and he's surrounding himself with yes men who are probably too chickenshit to stop him.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/scienc...codes.html