The reason, of course, is because we don’t want Russia, or China, or North Korea, or whomever, to use them against us. Most people who lived through the Cold War know about Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). Trump lived through that era, too, but was too busy cheating people to participate in “duck and cover” drills. So, now that he’s only a few votes away from the nuclear button, it’s necessary to educate him on why we don’t use nukes.
“Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can’t use nuclear weapons, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee. ‘Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can’t we use them,’ Scarborough said on his ‘Morning Joe’ program.”
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