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NUKING OURSELVES IN THE FOOT

BY JEFF STEIN

SPY TALK

A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST, like death itself, is something we’d rather not think about. So we don’t, much, except when some figure of note starts talking about using hydrogen bombs to settle a problem. Someone like Donald Trump.

But the shock and outrage over Trump’s recent loose talk about making Japan and South Korea develop their own nukes or dropping a bomb on the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS, obscures a more prosaic but arguably more imminent danger, according to a new documentary—that of a warhead going off by accident.

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