He's 70. Grew up with the entire doctrine of MAD. And he still doesn't get the fact that the first nation to use nukes is going to be obliterated by the rest of the nuclear powers - enemies AND allies alike? That nukes are (currently) the ultimate DEFENSIVE weapon? That 90% of the rationale for the nuclear football some poor sod carries behind the President is to give the option to PREVENT automatic retaliation in case of a first strike?
He's beyond stupid.
And yet Japan hasn't destroyed us yet. In fact, Japan bowed in surrender the moment bomb #2 hit Nagasaki.
For once, Trump is right. As the late Paul Harvey once put it, we keep our strongest weapons in our silos and wonder why we haven't decisively won a war since we last used them.
It has to be an option.
Of course, I don't trust Trump with having the option, but it should be one for any sane president, nevertheless.