If we ever learned how close we’ve repeatedly come to nuclear armageddon, we’d probably all go insane. Nobody wants to think that human civilization is balancing on a knife-edge, with the only thing stopping it being individuals making an ethical choice to prevent the atomic button being pushed.
This very situation may have happened over the weekend. In comments on the “Judging Freedom” podcast, retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson explained that he’d been told Donald Trump was actively trying to use nuclear weapons against Iran:
