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'Terrible idea': Trump adviser's plan for nukes sets off panic among experts https://t.co/nxdyZBLmms

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Robert C. O’Brien [Trump’s former National Security Adviser] made his case in the July-August issue of Foreign Affairs magazine that the United States ought to bring back nuclear weapons testing as China and Russia have "modernized their nuclear arsenals."

Why is that a bad idea, apart from, you know, nuclear fallout? Well, it wouldn’t be just us.

Russia withdrew its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in November, though Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the country would not resume nuclear testing “unless the United States does so."

Trump’s frame of reference is the ‘50’s, so he might think the worst problem would be giant ants.🐜