Scott Sagan: I study nuclear war. Kamala Harris must be our next president.

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Opinion: I study nuclear war. Kamala Harris must be our next president.

Scott D. Sagan
Op-ed contributor

Scott D. Sagan is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the author, among other books, of The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons.

(Detroit Free Press) The risk of nuclear war in the Middle East today is dangerously high, and Donald Trump is responsible.

Let me explain.

I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War. I clearly remember the "duck and cover" exercises we conducted in elementary school, crawling under the wooden desks when an alarm bell rang out at the Greenfield Village School. Our teacher tried to calm our nerves by claiming this was “a hurricane drill.” But with Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis on the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, we all knew what the drills were really about.

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No deal

A war is raging in the Middle East, and Iran is on the brink of getting nuclear weapons.  Donald Trump is responsible for this dangerous development because his administration withdrew, in 2018, from the U.S.-Iranian nuclear deal that restricted Tehran's ability to make highly enriched uranium bomb material.

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Do you want a President Harris, a former prosecutor known to stay calm and focused under pressure?

Or do you want a President Trump, who was so impulsive and vengeful at the end of his term in office that his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, like Nixon’s secretary of defense, told senior military officers to check back with him before following any presidential orders to use military force? ..................(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2024/10/14/trump-presidency-risk-nuclear-war-iran-israel-middle-east-kamala-harris/75612049007/