Would Trump Use the Bomb?

1952 FILE PHOTO - The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb,
July 25, 2018 Topic: Security Region: Asia Tags: Nuclear StrategyNuclear WarTrumpMADDeterrence

Would Trump Use the Bomb?

The danger of deliberately acting irrationally should not be underestimated.

Louis René Beres is the Emeritus Professor of International Law at Purdue University. He was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is the author of many books, monographs and articles on nuclear strategy and nuclear war. His twelfth book, Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy, was published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield. He is also a frequent contributor to Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School), Yale Global Online; JURIST; The Atlantic; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; The Jerusalem Post; The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The National Interest;U.S. News & World Report; The Hill; Oxford University Press; BESA Perspectives (Israel); and Israel Defense.

Image: 1952 FILE PHOTO - The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain 1352d Photographic Squadron. The top secret film studio, then located in Hollywood, California, produced thousands of classified films for the Department of Defence and the Atomic Energy Commission beginning in 1947. A 50th anniversary tribute to these "Atomic Cinematographers" and their work is planned for October 22 in Hollywood. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE