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There are a lot of things to be worried about in the world. Betsy DeVos’s confirmation continuing the political right’s continued attack on public education is one. The confirmation of Jeff Sessions, a man who was considered too racist to be a federal judge 30 years ago – and Senator Elizabeth Warren was told to sit down and shut up for reading a letter stating as much – was confirmed as Attorney General. Looming is the approval of an EPA chair that has a history of suing the EPA, so I’m sure that our environment will be fine in the future. Just a lot of doom, gloom, and general negatively if you sit down and think about it, which is why it is sometimes easier to not think about these things.

But all those things may not ultimately matter when you have a president that doesn’t understand the basics of nuclear non-proliferation and all the work that goes into preventing the nuclear holocaust from occurring. This was reconfirmed yesterday with the report of President Trump’s knowledge of one of the most important treaties that our country has signed in the past decade – New START – that requires the two largest holders of nuclear weapons to reduce their nuclear stockpiles. Continue reading “Knowledge Is Power” →