Morning Jolt: Sanctions Won’t Prevent a Nuclear Catastrophe

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

October 11 2024

Sanctions Won't Prevent a Nuclear Catastrophe

On the menu today: I would tell you about the new swing-state polls from the Wall Street Journal, but it's just more of the same — they're almost all close. Where Donald Trump or Kamala Harris leads, it's by two percentage points or fewer, well within the margin of error, except for Nevada, where Trump leads by five percentage points. Instead, let's turn our attention to the weightiest responsibility of the next president, "the button" and preventing any conflict around the globe from turning into a nuclear exchange.

The Nuclear Nobel

This morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots movement of atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again." In its prize ...

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