My timeline, going nuclear.
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Screenshot of my timeline just now. Two tweets, in succession. Quincy Institute NEW If we were to end up in a nuclear exchange with Russia, our situation would come to resemble not World War III, but something much worse. No blob, we are not 'already fighting' World War III - Responsible Statecraft These Washington foreign policy elites are recklessly suggesting that Russia is a universal threat that requires absolute victory over evil. Stephen Schwartz Stephen Schwartz · At 0400 today in 1979, Gen. William Odom, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s military assistant, was alerted by the Pentagon “War Room” that a West Coast radar had detected a Soviet SLBM in flight which was expected to strike 150 nautical miles off the Oregon coast.
3/ Thomas Merton, American: "There is in the English school less blood and anguish, less hellfire and horror than is to be found in any other school of Christian mysticism, and this, of course, is how it should be." @AtomicAnalyst
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Tweet from @AtomicAnalyst In the sculpture, a human being slays a dragon (as in the allegory of St. George and the Dragon). But here, the dragon—representing nuclear war—lies amidst pieces of actual SS-20 and Pershing II intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which were destroyed under the INF treaty.