Pope condemns possession of nuclear weapons

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Completely false. No individual can make that decision. It will be based on classified intelligence and outcome scenarios.
 
As President Trump does not seem to rely on our intelligence agencies, I doubt they will have much say as to whether we go to war with Iran or not.
It will likely be the Trump/Pompeo/Bolton triad who make the decision.
 
Definitely not. The current President is a figurehead only. No, the Department of Defense will have the final say. They’ll let the President know afterward.
 
The president and his advisers like Bolton and Pompeo call the shots. The president puts his trust is photo opts with despots like Putin and others.
 
If one goes off, i hope i am at ground zero. Poor are the ones who survive a nuclear holocaust.
 
History suggests that any exceptions are vanishingly rare, so far.
 
No, not like you think. Current technology is moving nuclear weapons off the table. And technology exists that can destroy rockets with nuclear warheads above enemy territory. These anti-nuclear rocket/warhead weapons are lasers and other beam weapons that are currently available and deployed. Moving at the speed of light, they will be able to hit any target.

Nuclear weapons will remain a threat. However, the enemy knows that massive, or, depending on the country, restrained retaliation will occur. A country’s military equipment can be wiped out in a few hours - all or most of it.
 
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I do not agree with these ideas. Nuclear weapons remain as a very great danger to all human life in the northern hemisphere. They are not, by any means, obsolete, and technologies are being developed and are even in place now to defeat anti-ICBM systems. The USA is committed to spending about one trillion dollars to improving its nuclear weapons over the next ten years.
If ICBMs, SLBMs, and stealth cruise missiles are so easily defeated by “laser weapons,” we really ought to be provided with the links this information.
 
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And if you get links to this information, what will you do with it?
 
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in the end, it puts the future of mankind into the hands of the N. Korean dictator and the Ayatollah of Iran. Neither of these should be trusted to act in a rational way.
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Do you trust Israel, Pakistan, or India “to act in a rational way.” The civilization of Iran goes back to before 700 BC which is a lot longer than the US. Further, Iran has never used the atomic bomb. If the US can have thousands of nuclear warheads, why shouldn’t Iran be able to have one. Pakistan has 90, India has 140, Israel is unofficially estimated to have more than 100. China has about 400 nuclear weapons.
I don’t see how you are going to stop other countries from producing nuclear weapons. Egypt for example, is planning a reactor that could produce a few nuclear warheads each month.
The US justified its use of the atomic bomb in WWII. If it was just for the US to use the atomic bomb in a war, what is to prevent other countries from providing their own justification to do the same?
 
“National Catholic Reporter”???

That is a dissident publication which has been asked to STOP using the term “Catholic.”

EDIT: By all appearances, they specifically chose the name to be confused with the orthodox National Catholic Register.
 
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And even if one regards Kim Jong Un as “irrational” (I’d like to contend he is rational, but that’s besides the point), he is definitely more predictable than Trump. What we need for world peace is not our subjective assessment of whether they are rational but whether they are predictable, ie responding to certain incentives and threats etc. The world can predict what North Korea will do, its not that hard, but try predicting what Trump will do.
 
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And even if one regards Kim Jong Un as “irrational” (I’d like to contend he is rational, but that’s besides the point), he is definitely more predictable than Trump. What we need for world peace is not our subjective assessment of whether they are rational but whether they are predictable, ie responding to certain incentives and threats etc. The world can predict what North Korea will do, its not that hard, but try predicting what Trump will do.
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The Holy Father Pope Francis has condemned the possession of nuclear weapons.
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Pope Francis has openly denounced the continuing possession of nuclear weapons
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The US has thousands of nuclear weapons. Since it is immoral to possess nuclear weapons, Catholics should make every effort to support the Holy Father by working to reduce the number of nuclear weapons currently possessed by the USA.
 
Do you have any ideas? Nuclear weapons are in secure locations and under a chain of command and control.
 
Not if they have any sense of self-preservation. Trump has no qualms about throwing insubordinate officers under the bus.
 
So this is about nonsense politics? The planning for the use of nuclear weapons is ongoing and covers decades. There is no one, no matter how stupid, who can throw all of that away.
 
Plans, yes, but the order to launch nuclear weapons can only come from the President. Attempting to usurp launch authority will get you shot. Now, the President can pre-authorize launches in the event DC gets nuked or the like, but that authority is restricted to scenarios where the United States has already suffered a WMD attack, and any orders given by the President (this includes anyone who may succeed to the Presidency as a result of the death or incapacitation of the President) supersede the prior orders. The codes for launch authority are kept in nuclear footballs entrusted to Secret Service agents: one by the President’s side at all times, and another with the Vice President or the Designated Survivor.
 
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