So many words, but so little action on nuclear disarmament

How is it that one man, or his counterparts in nine nuclear-armed states, can be allowed to hold the fate of the world in their hands?
In the dying days of his presidency, senior U.S. politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed concern about Donald Trump having access to the country’s nuclear codes.
Who in their wildest dreams would have thought that the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, would feel compelled earlier this month to plead with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to deny access by an increasingly unstable president to the nuclear launch codes, for fe...

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