{"id":335341,"date":"2017-11-17T04:08:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-senate-hearing-exposes-danger-of-nuclear-war\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T04:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:08:40","slug":"us-senate-hearing-exposes-danger-of-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-senate-hearing-exposes-danger-of-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate hearing exposes danger of nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US Senate hearing exposes danger of nuclear war<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    16 November 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the use of nuclear weapons highlighted the acute danger of the eruption of a war that could kill hundreds of millions or even billions of people.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was called amid a series of threats by the Trump administration to go to war with North Korea. In addition to Trump\u2019s threats to unleash \u201cfire and fury like the world has never seen\u201d against a country whose economy is one one-thousandth the size of America\u2019s, National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster, an active duty Army general, has made clear that the US is prepared to wage a \u201cpreventive,\u201d that is, unprovoked, war.<\/p>\n<p>To back up this threat, the Trump administration has deployed a vast armada off of the Korean Peninsula, including three aircraft carrier battle groups and an array of nuclear-capable submarines and bombers. At the same time, Washington is moving to expand and modernize the US nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Tuesday\u2019s hearing, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey declared that plans could be in place \u201cright now in the White House given to the president to launch a preemptive war against North Korea using American nuclear weapons without consulting with, informing Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said Congress was \u201cconcerned that the president is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear weapons strike\u201d on a whim.<\/p>\n<p>These statements are an acknowledgment that even the smallest incident, from a wayward test missile to a clash between Russia, China, North Korea or Iran and any of the tens of thousands of US troops, aircraft and warships operating on their borders, to one of the president\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/11\/16\/pers-n16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US Senate hearing exposes danger of nuclear war 16 November 2017 Tuesday\u2019s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the use of nuclear weapons highlighted the acute danger of the eruption of a war that could kill hundreds of millions or even billions of people. The hearing was called amid a series of threats by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}