Nuclear experts: Trump tweets could provoke global crisis

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Nuclear experts: Trump tweets could provoke global crisis
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Nuclear arms experts warn that tweets from President-elect Donald Trump could bait countries with nuclear weapons.

The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent spoke with several nuclear experts about the potential impacts of Trump’s tweet published last week, in which he said the U.S. “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.”

“Imagine we’re in a crisis — if he recklessly Tweets, people could read these things in the worst possible light,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear non-proliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. “The North Koreans have a plan to use nuclear weapons very early in a conflict. They’re not going to wait around. If they think we are going, they’re going to use nuclear weapons against South Korea and Japan.”


Lewis also told the Post that if Trump “says the wrong thing” and “gives the impression that we’re about to act” with nuclear weapons, North Korea could use that as “their signal that they have to go.”

Bruce Blair, a nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, told the Post that it would be easy to read Trump’s tweets as warnings to other world leaders. He said Trump conducting “nuclear diplomacy by Twitter” could make an already prevalent situation much worse.

“Almost any threat could be perceived as warranting some sort of response that’s not only rhetorical, but operational,” Blair said.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/311827-nuclear-experts-trump-tweets-could-provoke-global-crisis

[stonecutter357]

1. Trump tweets are a global crisis.

[PJMcK]

5. Yep

Donald Trump's presence in our government is a global crisis. He will get us into misadventures very quickly, I fear.

[Vinca]

2. About 10 minutes ago Directv ran a national warning system test.

It's certainly not the first time they've done it, but it's the first time I've paid attention to it. All I could think was "good timing."

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Twitter should just suspend the Fuhrer-Elect's account... it's really not that hard!!

[spanone]

4. i suspect that's why he's doing it. that or he's really, really ignorant.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Fucking idiot!

[pfitz59]

7. Trump's election is already a global disaster

what little respect our nation may have left in world opinion is gone. The tweeter-in-chief shows himself to be a true Trumplethinskin..