Mango Mussolini orders Nuclear Weapons Testing

[angrychair]

No lies:

Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said in a Truth Social post shortly before his highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. “That process will begin immediately.”

This has gone to damn far. This is completely insane.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-orders-pentagon-begin-testing-nuclear-weapons-immediately-rcna240681

[Norrrm]

1. Which blue state is he scheduling first?

[angrychair]

2. Exactly

Exactly that. You've know it's coming.

[Captain Zero]

3. Won't that violate a treaty?

Wouldn't the Senate have to vote for breaking a treaty?

[Xolodno]

9. Don't quote me and if my memory serves me...

...the limited ban (atmosphere, space and underwater) is still in effect. Although I won't be surprised if the orange anus pulls us out of it.

The comprehensive was never ratified by the USA despite the Soviet Union signing it. The Russian Federation being the de facto heir, pulled out of it a year ago citing the USA still not ratifying it. But at the same time, stated they would not resume testing unless the USA did so.

And Presidents have pulled us out of treaties, see W. Bush. Often no consequences for doing so.

[pat_k]

11. Trent Lott's Senate's failure to ratify the comprehensive test ban in 1999 was a national shame.

And it was a shame that a subsequent president should have attempted to erase by working for ratification.

That said, every president since Clinton nevertheless observed the ban by continuing the moratorium on testing -- that is, until now.

[James48]

10. Not exactly.

We signed the Comprehensive nuclear testing treaty in 1996, but it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate. We apparently never had the votes to pass it, so it never got voted on.

We would be the first ever signatory nation that has abandoned it, however. That doesn’t make us look good in the eyes of the world.

We are now the outlaw rogue nation armed with nuclear weapons.

[pat_k]

12. It was voted on in 1999. Trent Lott ensured ratification failed.

From what I've gleaned, he orchestrated a "hit and run" vote, bypassing committee hearings, limited debate, no time for public response...

[Blues Heron]

4. Atmospheric?

[TommyT139]

5. Netflix: A House of Dynamite

This just-released film is a political thriller showing what happens in the twenty minutes in response to an inbound missile. The narrative doesn't allude to Trump at all, nor his lackeys, and it doesn't need to.

Yet when you're done watching this riveting movie, the Trump regime's occupation of our country, and its control of the nukes, will make this movie even more powerful.

[RandySF]

6. I bet he nukes my city.

[FHRRK]

8. Nah

LA area, chance to kill millions more

[Lovie777]

7. Everyday it's always sometthing cruel, evil, hated, violent, notning good coming.............

from the GQP.

[Another Jackalope]

13. Russia's recent announcement

Russia's recent unveiling of their Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile was probably a major factor in the announcement of restarting testing.

[Jack Valentino]

14. Can we test one on the proposed Trump ballroom site while Trump inspects it ??

I think he should have a bird's eye look, or whatever we want to call it!

[DFW]

15. Let me guess.....

An above-ground test where Los Angeles used to be?

Come to think of it, check out the last 45 seconds of this video. Was I prescient, or what?
(I swear that I didn't know at the time we made it)