Following the storming of the US Capitol Building
on 6 January, members of congress called for measures to be
taken to prevent outgoing president Donald Trump from launching a
nuclear attack during his final days in office.
Not only does this reveal the chaotic political situation in the
States, but it serves to shine a light on the very real threat that
nuclear war continues to be.
Indeed, while the
Cuban missile crisis, and the destruction of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki have faded into the past, nuclear weapons still pose
existential danger.
Renowned US political commentator Noam Chomsky
has repeatedly warned over recent years that the two major
threats to the existence of our species are global warming and the
seven-decades-long potential there's been for nuclear war.
