Congress isn't stopping him doing anything. I don't see them suddenly changing just to prevent global nuclear war.

I thought I could write solid, dark comments but your comment about having our only hopes based solely on congress wins all the awards for darkest comment ever written.

excluding few hard left or right leaders, our entire congress works for aipac so fat chance of that. they will approve nuking LA and SF if israel told them to.

Or they're just running clips of Oppenheimer for him

Hey, you can't deny the world will have a lot fewer nuclear weapons in it afterwards!

They will write a strong-worded protest statement.

I agree with you completely. He's fascinated with nukes, and believes naked demonstrations of power show that he's strong. If he does drop a nuke in Iran, you can guarantee that Russia will use them in Ukraine, and that quickly opens the door to a much wider war in Europe. Strategic thinking is not Trump's strong suit, and he's likely to bumble us into a nuclear WWIII.

My worry is he will drop one on an American state.

Wouldn't be the first time, but those were on accident and thankfully didn't detonate.

Edit to add reference: 1961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash

I fully expect him to nuke a blue state in a false flag attack. I can't prove it, but I won't be surprised if he does

WHO GETS THE NUKE FIRST? IRAN, GAZA OR THE FIRST HURRICANE OF THE SEASON! sadtimes.

I would be scared if I lived in New Mexico …

Don’t worry, Los Angeles isn’t a state :p

That phrasing is kinda racist, yo

You forgot the part where you Chicken out and go back on everything so you lose on both sides... No one ever sees it coming

Jesus was a Palestinian Jew, if Trump met Him today he would send Him to CECOT.

Yeah but israel is our colonial outpost in the middle east, they can do whatever they want

Maybe they've got Saddam's missing WMDs. . .

9/11 killed a lot of Americans, ice kills Americans, do you see the pattern here, Jimmy?

He will commit whatever horrible atrocity he's going to commit, and then the world will say he went too far, and only then will the world put an end to it. But unfortunately, the atrocity will come first.

They're waiting to see if we can get past this stage on our own.

Alien Narrator: But they wouldn't.

He floats the craziest idea so that whatever happens he can say "at least I didn't do that one thing" and his base will praise him for it--even though the thing he actually did was still moronic. This is the "permanent 300% tariff", "Canada will be the 51st state", or the "Golden Trump Gaza" video. It's the only way this imbecile knows how to negotiate.

He's gonna backpadel because he is a wimp, a paper tiger, he doesn't dare to send people to war as he's chickened out of Viet Nam.

TACO

Ya know, I can’t hate this take.

Explosion no. Extra fallout, maybe. But the facility we're talking about is deep underground, so even if it happens, hopefully that contains some of the fallout.

Sounds like science stuff and facts. MAGA doesn't have any time for those.

Well, there actually wouldn't be a much larger explosion, that's just not how nukes work.
A nuclear explosion is an incredibly delicate process, and the material just won't go critical because there's another detonation nearby. It's not like dropping a bomb on a dynamite warehouse. There's not a great analogy for what it is like though. Expecting a satellite launch to happen because you blew up a tank of rocket fuel next to it? Not quite there.

Additional contamination from onsite material is a different matter. Most nukes detonate above their target since that maximizes damage, but it also reduces fallout. There would, however, be vaporized material that would be sucked into the air by the vacuum created by the detonation. It's not clear if the presence of radioactive material would make it significantly worse than the general "radioactive dust and molten sand" that would normally be sent into the air.

In general, if you nuke something there's going to be radioactive issues afterwards, and you shouldn't do it. Adding a nuclear facility to the mix is kinda just throwing rocks at the windows on 9/11.

Just think of the moths it would attract though