Former Nuke Weapons Officer Goes Off: Trump Is ‘So Damn Dangerous’

This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crater, ten feet deep at the vent and the sand within the crater had been burned and... This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crater, ten feet deep at the vent and the sand within the crater had been burned and boiled into a highly radioactive, jade-green, glassy crust. (AP Photo) MORE LESS
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Conservative national security hawk and former Jeb Bush adviser John Noonan used a Wednesday tweetstorm to sound off on his concerns about a report that Donald Trump had repeatedly asked an unnamed adviser why the United States could not use nuclear weapons.

“Buckle the hell up,” Noonan tweeted. “Nuclear deterrence is about balance. Trump is an elephant jumping up and down on one side of the scale. So damn dangerous.”

Before moving to the Foreign Policy Initiative and advising Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush during their campaigns, Noonan served as a Minuteman III nuclear launch officer in the U.S. Air Force.

In a Wednesday morning interview with retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed that Trump allegedly asked why the U.S. could not use nuclear weapons several times during a briefing with an unnamed foreign policy expert.

Top Trump aide Paul Manafort later denied that any such security briefings have been made, saying that it “just didn’t happen.”

Here’s what Noonan had to say, from the perspective of a former nuclear weapons officer:

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  1. North Korea: We love Trump. He has seen The Light.

  2. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    Trump is an elephant jumping up and down on one side of the scale.

    Aided and abetted by Newt, Eric, Ivanka, Paul, Rudy, and countless other spineless Republicans who say nothing but still supporting the nominee.

  3. Sane. Common sense. Experienced. Sad!!

  4. Dr. Strangetrump.

    “We’ll meet again,
    Don’t know where, don’t know when”…

  5. Trump asked if any of the tactical nukes come in chocolate…

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