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President declares he 'wants the United States to be the world's dominant nuclear power' (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Feb 2017
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Ilsa
(61,698 posts)1. So, he thinks we're in 19th place, like with life expectancy?
Okay, I'm not sure where we are ranked on life expectancy. But does he believe we don't have superior nuclear capability? It sounds like he is implying we don't.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)2. So he wants a make-believe arms race? Against an imaginary foe that is now
way ahead of the US in terms of nuclear capability???
25th Amendment?
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)5. There you go: Donald is cra-cra.
Lost touch with reality, and is dangerous. 25th Amendment remedy!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. His Cabinet Members
have interests in Extraction Industries. Uranium Mining needs payback for their contributions to his Campaign.
tomhagen
(3,604 posts)4. Very WRONG kind of thinking in the Nuclear Age. Nobody wins with Nuclear