Anti-Trump GOP Says Trump Will Start A Nuclear War

He lies. He's unstable. He's a sociopath. He doesn't have the right temperament. He can't be trusted. And now, because nothing succeeds like excess, the hyperbole must be ratcheted up to what must be its logical conclusion - he'll start a nuclear war and kill us all. Such are the criticisms of Donald Trump from the stable, trustworthy, commentators in the media and academic elite.Really? This is where Trump Derangement Syndrome leads? To the conviction that Donald Trump will end life on earth?

These are the known times when a nuclear war could have started:
In October 1962, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. came to the brink of nuclear war during what’s become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On October 27, 1962, just as the Cuban Missile Crisis was reaching its boiling point, an American U-2 spy plane took off from Alaska en route to a routine reconnaissance mission near the North Pole. He got lost when his navigation failed and Russia dispatched MIGs to shoot him down thinking he was a nuclear bomber and we had to scramble fighters with nuclear tipped missiles as a threat to the MIGs and get him before they shot him down.
That same day, a minor incident aboard a Soviet submarine might stand as the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. On October 27, 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the American destroyer USS Beale began dropping depth charges on the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine B-59, which was lurking near the U.S. blockade line around Cuba. If it wasn’t for the second in command on the sub, realizing the charges wee not to deswtroy, talked the sub commander into surfacing before firing it’s one nuclear missile.
Perhaps the most famous of these errors occurred at Colorado’s North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. On the morning of November 9, 1979, technicians at the site received an urgent alert that the Soviets had launched a barrage of missiles at North America. Convinced a nuclear attack was imminent, the U.S. air defense program scrambled 10 interceptor fighter planes, ordered the president’s “doomsday plane” to take off, and warned launch control to prepare its missiles for a retaliatory attack. But satellite checks turned out to be a computer glitch.
On September 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in command at Serpukhov-15, a bunker where the Soviets monitored their satellite-based detection systems. Shortly after midnight, panic broke out when an alarm sounded signaling that the United States had fired five Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, toward Russia. The warning was a false alarm—one of the satellites had misinterpreted the glint of sunlight off clouds near Montana as a missile launch—but to the Soviets, it appeared the United States had started a nuclear war.
A November 1983 NATO war game nearly saw the United States and the Soviet Union come to blows. The source of the misunderstanding was an exercise known as Able Archer 83, which was supposed to simulate how a conventional attack on Europe by the Soviet Union could eventually be met by a U.S. nuclear strike. Able Archer mission differed from the usual protocol in both its scope and realism. In preparation for the war game, the United States airlifted 19,000 troops to Europe, changed its alert status to DEFCON 1 and moved certain commands to alternate locations—all steps that typically would only be taken in times of war. Unbeknownst to the Americans, the Soviets had soon gone into high alert and readied their nuclear arsenal, with some units in East Germany and Poland even preparing their fighter jets for takeoff. They remained poised for a counterstrike until November 11, when the Able Archer exercise ended without incident.
And even Obama was thought to possibly start a nuclear war by his own party member, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard in December of 2015.
So, we had a majority of the incidents under the watch of a democratic president. I guess they don’t learn from history.

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