With a new weapon in Trump's hands, the Iran crisis risks going nuclear

Ten days before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, the United States nuked Iran. The occasion: a nuclear war exercise held every year in late October. In the war game, after Iran sank an American aircraft carrier and employed chemical weapons against a Marine Corps force, the Middle East commander requested a nuclear strike, and a pair of B-2 stealth bombers, each loaded with a single nuclear bomb, stood by while the president deliberated.

Though the United States has never made any public or explicit nuclear threat against Iran, in the past year, it has deployed a new nuclear weapon which increases the prospects for nuclear war. The new nuclear weapon, called the W76-2, is a"low yield" missile warhead intended for exactly the type of Iran scenario that played out in the last days of the Obama administration.

. In its guidance to nuclear war planners just three months after 9/11, the White House added the"axis of evil" states plus Syria and Libya to Strategic Command's missions.

"They answered their own mail," one retired Air Force officer involved in the early Trump White House said of the national security directive. U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirits assigned to Air Force Global Strike Command prepare to take off from the runway at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Oct 30, 2016, during exercise Global Thunder 17. AFGSC supports U.S. Strategic Command's global strike and nuclear deterrence missions by providing strategic assets, including bombers like the B-52 and B-2, to ensure a safe, secure, effective and ready deterrent force.

On October 30, 2016, a day before Global Thunder 17 ended, the USS Pennsylvania, a Trident ballistic missile submarine based in Washington state, surfaced in Apra Harbor, Guam. It was the first visit of a ballistic missile submarine to Guam in 28 years and only the third Trident submarine to make a foreign port visit since 9/11.

Make's no sense to a normal thinking person, then there is Newsweek-the far left news media.

What was our electoral college thinking? They saw DT's well exposed spots (including birther--he lied about without flinching for months--etc. etc.). How could they ignore his unstable chaotic disastrous character 3 million more of us saw and rejected. The majority knows better.

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