Sometime before Inauguration Day, President-elect Trump will be briefed on the American plan for nuclear war, inclusive of the role he plays in ordering nuclear weapons release (i.e., the “nuclear codes”.) John F. Kennedy was the first American president briefed on this plan, back in 1961. Afterwards, a shaken Kennedy told his Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, “And we call ourselves the human race.”President Nixon was similarly appalled. “No matter what we do,” he told his National Security Council, “they [the Soviets] lose their cities…what a decision.” Ninety million Soviets would die in an American nuclear strike, Nixon …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
