{"id":44355,"date":"2019-03-10T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44355"},"modified":"2019-03-10T07:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T12:07:20","slug":"a-modest-proposal-dont-start-a-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44355","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal: Don\u2019t Start a Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/08\/a-modest-proposal-dont-start-a-nuclear-war\/\">A Modest Proposal: Don\u2019t Start a Nuclear War<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In a matter of minutes, as easily as sending a tweet, a sitting U.S. president could decide to launch a nuclear attack, without anyone else\u2019s approval or authorization. In a matter of minutes, millions of lives would be lost, and millions of futures halted permanently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At my organization, Physicians for Social Responsibility, we believe that we must prevent what we can\u2019t cure. And there\u2019s no cure for a nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No nation on earth, including the United States, would have an adequate emergency response in the event of a nuclear exchange. Most Americans don\u2019t want us to ever engage in a nuclear war, and the vast majority of us certainly don\u2019t want the United States to be the ones to start a nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States, like every other nation, has a vested interest in avoiding a nuclear conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet unlike other countries, we currently have no policy against starting a nuclear war \u2014 or what experts call a \u201cNo First Use\u201d policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opens the door to a possible preemptive nuclear strike. That weakens our national security, and it puts all our health and safety at risk \u2014 for a nuclear war no one (except maybe President Donald Trump and John Bolton) wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, some people in Congress are looking to change the reckless status quo. This year, Rep. Adam Smith and Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation that would establish a \u201cNo First Use\u201d policy for nuclear weapons in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur current nuclear strategy is not just outdated \u2014 it is dangerous,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adamsmith.house.gov\/2019\/1\/chairman-smith-senator-warren-introduce-bill-establishing-no-first-use-policy-for-nuclear-weapons\">said Smith and Warren<\/a>. \u201cBy making clear that deterrence is the sole purpose of our arsenal, this bill would reduce the chances of a nuclear miscalculation and help us maintain our moral and diplomatic leadership in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Modest Proposal: Don\u2019t Start a Nuclear War In a matter of minutes, as easily as sending a tweet, a sitting U.S. president could decide to launch a nuclear attack, without anyone else\u2019s approval or authorization. In a matter of minutes, millions of lives would be lost, and millions of futures halted permanently. At my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,581,24604,24605,862],"class_list":["post-44355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-nuclear-war","tag-olivia-alperstein","tag-physicians-for-social-responsibility","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44356,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44355\/revisions\/44356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}