Nuclear weapons are, ofc, very dangerous
But the idea that one, or even a few, warheads could pose an « existential threat » to the United States is braindead hysterics
That media outlets (ABC News in this case) are repeating these claims without challenge is criminal warmongering, not journalism
![« Since capital, the direct or indirect control of the means of subsistence and production, is the weapon with which [the] social war is carried on, it is clear that all the disadvantages of such a state must fall upon the poor. For them no human has the slightest concern. Cast into the whirlpool, they must struggle through as well as they can. If they are so happy as to find work, i.e., if the bourgeoisie does them the favor to enrich itself by means of them, wages await them which scarcely suffice to keep body and soul together ; if they can get no work they may steal, if they are not afraid of the police, or starve, in which case the police will take care that they do so in a quiet and inoffensive manner. During my residence in England, at least twenty or thirty persons have died of simple starvation under the most revolting circumstances, and a jury has rarely been found possessed of the courage to speak the plain truth in the matter. Let the testimony of the witnesses be never so clear and unequivocal, the bourgeoisie, from which the jury is selected, always finds some backdoor through which to escape the frightful verdict, death from starvation. The bourgeoisie dare not speak the truth in these cases, for it would speak its own condemnation. But indirectly, far more than directly, many have died of starvation, where long-continued want of proper nourishment has called forth fatal illness, when it has produced such debility that causes which might otherwise have remained inoperative brought on severe illness and death. The English workers call this « social murder », and accuse our whole society of perpetrating this crime perpetually. Are they wrong ? » — Friedrich Engels, The Condition ofthe Working Class in England](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vol4vrulwv3iznb2ytf2sqms/bafkreifbvmo6gnvs6ijgc52l43tcmdzvsdvx7gcnmdp3sq3fpfexk5u6ce)
![« [D]own at the mall there's a mid-season sale. Everything's discounted – oceans, rivers, oil, gene pools, fig wasps, flowers, childhoods, aluminum factories, phone companies, wisdom, wilderness, civil rights, eco-systems, air – all 4,600 million years of evolution. It's packed, sealed, tagged, valued and available off the rack. (No returns). As for justice – I'm told it's on offer too. You can get the best that money can buy. Donald Rumsfeld said that his mission in the War Against Terror was to persuade the world that Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life. When the maddened king stamps his foot, slaves tremble in their quarters. So, standing here today, it's hard for me to say this, but « The American Way of Life » is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
But fortunately, power has a shelf life. When the time comes, maybe this mighty empire will, like others before it, overreach itself and implode from within. It looks as though structural cracks have already appeared. As the War Against Terror casts its net wider and wider, America's corporate heart is hemorrhaging. » – Arundhati Roy](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vol4vrulwv3iznb2ytf2sqms/bafkreigflbdjrwjdxsqmn4kmiwkyl44p2h6djrxslka5jeprkrrtui3bp4)
