Trump Could Start a Nuclear War

John Graham
3 min readJan 7, 2021

You don’t want to hear this right now but, after the mob attack on the US Capitol, I need to tell you something you need to think about.

The biggest danger this nation faces in the two weeks before Joseph Biden becomes president is that a deranged Donald Trump could start a nuclear war.

Nuclear weapons are something I know about. For three years I was a member of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group (NPG), a super-secret team charged with planning nuclear strikes to combat a possible Soviet attack on Europe. I learned all the details of America’s nuclear arsenal and I helped plan where and how it could be used in defense of NATO. My work also brought me in close contact with America’s global nuclear strategies.

As you may know, the final authority rests with the American president for any use of our nuclear weapons, anywhere in the world; that’s why a military aide with a briefcase holding the nuclear launch codes accompanies the president wherever he goes.

The weak point in our strategy, one that is still in place, is the decision-making process for a launch. Given that the warning time for an incoming nuclear strike could be only minutes, if you make the launch procedure too time-consuming, then the US could be a smoking ruin before any of our missiles could be launched. But if you make it too easy, then you risk…

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John Graham

John Graham is an adventurer, a former Foreign Service Officer, a writer, speaker and political activist, and a leader of the Giraffe Heroes Project,