{"id":2022,"date":"2020-01-06T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2020-01-06T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:32:48","slug":"were-using-our-nuclear-weapons-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2022","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re &#8220;using&#8221; our nuclear weapons now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drone-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drone-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drone-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drone-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drone-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drone.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump just tweeted that: &#8220;Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.&#8221;  We, conversely, have more than 2,000 deployable nuclear weapons &#8212; aimed all over the world.  What&#8217;s more, we have some 20,000 weaponized drones.  In Pope Francis&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Day talk, he said that all nuclear weapons are &#8220;immoral.&#8221;  Period.  We say we&#8217;d never &#8220;use&#8221; our nuclear weapons (sans, of course, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Marshall Islands, years of underground testing&#8230;).  Yet we are, in a very real sense, <em>using<\/em> our nuclear weapons now.  That is, we&#8217;re <em>using<\/em> them to protect ourselves (in the extreme), while 24,000 people starve to death in the world every day, a billion people don&#8217;t have access to clean drinking water, billions of people live in deplorable slum conditions&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump just tweeted that: &#8220;Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.&#8221; We, conversely, have more than 2,000 deployable nuclear weapons &#8212; aimed all over the world. What&#8217;s more, we have some 20,000 weaponized drones. In Pope Francis&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Day <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2022\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}