Trump once wanted to curb the threat of nuclear war. He should try again. - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump must manage these complex warnings.
53% : In 1986, the year after our Boston-based organization, the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, won the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump contacted IPPNW to request help in meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union, and then-president Ronald Reagan.
52% : It has been 78 years since Baruch delivered his speech to the UN, but he correctly foresaw the stakes: "The way is long and thorny, but supremely worth traveling.
47% : Trump will assume management of approximately 1,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, which means they are ready for launch within an hour of an order to counter an attempted first strike.
45% : Trump once demonstrated an interest in prevention of nuclear war.
45% : His proposal was presented to the UN by New York business leader Bernard Baruch on June 14, 1946 (which is coincidentally also the day that Trump was born).
44% : In 2017, ICAN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for developing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which "entered into force" in 2021 with 94 signatories at the United Nations.
35% : Deliverance from the nuclear threat requires stepping back from our immediate danger, plus longer-term efforts to improve the UN and abolish war and nuclear weapons.
32% : Donald Trump sought the meeting with Gorbachev and Reagan to assist their efforts to reduce the nuclear threat.
28% : Trump had discussed the nuclear threat with his late uncle, John Trump, then a physicist at MIT.
27% : Unfortunately the offer to transfer control of nuclear weapons to the UN was blocked by the Soviet Union, which then had no nuclear weapons but deemed the UN to be overly influenced by the United States.

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