2020 Election Could Decide Whether US Pursues Nuclear Escalation or Arms Control
(WorldNews Iran)

In these final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, U.S. voters` attention is being consumed by a maelstrom of crises — a merciless pandemic, a battered economy, a society ruptured by racist police violence and deadly structural inequalities, climate chaos and a fragile democracy. Who has time to worry about nuclear war? But just as warnings of a climate crisis and pandemics have been borne out, experts have long sounded the alarm about nuclear weapons, whether their use is triggered by impulse, accident or miscalculation. It took 140 years for the average global temperature to rise by 1.1° Celsius and just four months for COVID-19 to kill 100,000 people in the U.S. Meanwhile it would...