The following is no longer a partisan party issue.  It’s become an American issue.

If you’re at all, in the slightest concerned about nuclear weapons and Donald Trump, read the following: http://storify.com/…/john-noonan-on-nuclear-deterrence-and-…

This should give every reasonable person pause.

If recent claims of Trump and nuclear weapons prove true, truly be concerned. Even if they prove false, consider the temperament of the man in relation to all those who came before him.  Allegedly, he asked repeatedly why he could not use nuclear weapons. Call me a madman if you must, but I would think the preferred question should at the very least instead be “Why should I use nuclear weapons?”, not “Why can’t I?”

As of 2014, I believe the largest yield nuclear weapon the USA has is 1.4 megatons. 1 megaton = 1,000,000 tons of TNT. That’s 2,000,000,000, or two billion, pounds of TNT. You could therefore explode a pound of that equivalent TNT every minute for two thousand years and still have about half the yield left over, if not more. You could blow up a modestly sized car every minute back to the time of Jesus Christ with the power of JUST ONE nuclear weapon.

This is the ungodly power we have given ourselves, like a wayward Prometheus.

But since there are no gods to bind us for all eternity as punishment nor a godly voice to chastise us, we must bind ourselves, limit ourselves, in the use of such awesome power. How can we do otherwise?  Through our intellect, we have come to the point in our technological development that we can recreate the conditions of a star on the surface of our planet, all for destructive purposes.  Zeus can retain his lightning bolt, and Thor his hammer.  Even the biblical God needed days of rain to flood the world, and could only focus his destructive might on a small city to raze it to the ground.  Witness what power we now have, and to what use we can put it!

It is unfortunate that these weapons exist. But though we can destroy the world, we still cannot traverse the space between points of time, and so we cannot rid ourselves of the idea of these weapons, nor the technology developed from those first ideas.  However, we must make sure that we do not rain down destruction on ourselves. The power of gods exists at the touch of a phone and a turn of a key. We are the Destroyers of Worlds, and fate just stalks our every step to see if we slip.  And slip, one day, we may.

Now, a candidate for President, who is baited by people left and right, who responds astonishingly strongly to any criticism no matter how slight, who is considering abandoning alliances established to push back against the desires of Strong Men, may be wondering why he cannot use these weapons.

For longer than I can even contemplate, the awesome power of the lightning bolt has struck terror into humans, before the nature of lightning was fully comprehended.  A blast of power from the sky that can destroy, burn, perhaps even explode!  It will strike you dead!  And from whence does it come?  The random destruction wrought by the lightning bolt could most often be laid at the feet of a god with little care for the affairs of men, quick to anger, quicker to destroy.

Now we are armed with a power greater than lightning bolts.  And, instead of a heartless god, we have a presidential candidate who contemplates raining down nuclear weapons on a whim.

No person should ever want to use nuclear weapons so cavalierly. Think about what groups in this world do want to use these weapons so cavalierly, and feel that cold shiver down your spine.  They are not peacemakers.  They are not great lovers of humanity.  They wish only to destroy, to kill, to instill fear the world over.  What other sort of human could, with relish, consider the use of these horrible weapons?

Say what you will about former presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney, former Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, or current President Barack Obama, or current presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, I never was actually terrified of the idea of them having access to nuclear weapons.  At the very least, they understood that nuclear weapons were neither a privilege nor a gift, but a horrible, horrible responsibility.

The launch of nuclear weapons is largely determined by one person: The President.

Will you entrust the power of gods to the hands of Trump?  Is that what we have come to?

Think on it.