A Date Which Will Live in Infamy II
Will that be November 8th, 2016, or some date after an election of Donald Trump?*
It's a serious question, with serious ramifications for us all.
Imagine if you will an analogy. For a moment, pretend the date is December 6th, 1941 and you had at your disposal the U.S.S. Nimitz, a nuclear power aircraft carrier with a compliment of 102 combat aircraft, situated off the west coast of Oahu, Hawaii. Enough firepower that you could not only defend Hawaii, but you could prevent the entire war in the Pacific and end WWII. Now imagine you could accomplish that same world changing history by electing Hillary Clinton.
This needs to sink in. What may be at stake is the election of Donald Trump, a man who inquisitively asks why America doesn't use its nuclear arsenal. We know this. We also know that as Commander-in-Chief, if he decides to launch our ICBMs at someone somewhere, there's nothing we can do about it after the fact. Millions of people will probably die in just one his careless actions. That should scare you to the point it raises the hairs on the back of you neck. Everyone's lives will change completely forever. There's no turning back if he's elected.
On the one hand, your country's future would change positively and The Date Which Will Live in Infamy (I) would be averted with your decisive use of voting force.
And on the other hand if you aren't able to encourage others the importance of what is at stake, we fail to prevent what half of us feel is the inevitable warhead exchange, another date which will live in infamy.
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was estimated to have killed 90,000–146,000 people. It only had a yield of about 15 kilotons. A U.S. W87 warhead on top of one of our ICBMS yields 300 kilotons. Russian SS-18 warheads are said to yield about 18 - 25 megatons.
Make history. Vote early. Encourage others to vote early or on election day. But please, get them to vote for Hillary Clinton. She is our only hope for a better tomorrow.
* "Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.” And now 50% of Americans say they believe that if he’s elected president he (Trump) will use a nuke during his presidency.
