The Threat of Nuclear Weapons to America
Sixty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis came close to ending in a world-changing nuclear attack. Fortunately, JFK stood up to his generals and found a way to compromise with the Soviet Union. He wasn't "weak" in seeking a diplomatic way out: he was wise.
Today, Joe Biden is America's president, and his talk of Armageddon is too glib to inspire confidence. Strangely, Americans now look to the military for cautious diplomacy, which is a contradiction in terms.
We seem to have forgotten how vitally important it is to limit nuclear weapons, and to work diplomatically to ensure they're never used in war, as well as to downsize nuclear arsenals worldwide, starting with our own.
Hans Bethe, who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, put it best in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Such attacks "should never be done again."