A Group of Former Nuclear Launch Officers Calls President Trump ‘A Clear and Present Danger’

The following article by Eli Meixler was posted on the Time website January 12, 2018:

U.S. President Donald Trump’s readiness to threaten the use of America’s nuclear arsenal has unnerved diplomats and academics and inflamed tensions with North Korea over the first year of his presidency. Now former nuclear missile launch operators are adding themselves to the list of concerned observers.

In an open letter to Congress on Thursday, a group of 17 former nuclear launch officers argued that President Trump “poses a clear and present danger to the country and the world” and warned that “there are no reliable safeguards” to prevent Trump from deciding to launch a nuclear missile on his own. Continue reading “A Group of Former Nuclear Launch Officers Calls President Trump ‘A Clear and Present Danger’”