Don’t assume Donald Trump wants nuclear Armageddon |
Donald Trump is plotting to turn Britain into a ‘nuclear launchpad’, according to a startling report in the Daily Mail. Leaked Pentagon documents suggest a $264 million upgrade of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk will end with US nuclear weapons on British soil for the first time since they were removed under Barack Obama in 2008.
The bombs would be aimed at ‘facing down Putin’, the paper claims. The revelation comes just weeks after Trump ordered the US military to resume nuclear testing for the first time in more than 30 years, fuelling fears of a dangerous new global arms race.
From the moment he first rolled into the White House in 2017, the discourse surrounding Trump and the nuclear arsenal has oscillated between dark comedy and barely suppressed dread. People assume that he is either too dim to grasp the apocalypse that nuclear weapons promise or, having grasped it, too erratic to resist the seductive glow of the launch codes.
But Trump and the nuclear threat have history. He was born within months of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During his school days, ‘duck and cover’ civil........