Trump, N. Korea, and nukes - they tried to warn us for 72 years. We didn't listen

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Trump, N. Korea, and nukes - they tried to warn us for 72 years. We didn't listen
Updated: August 10, 2017 — 12:32 PM EDT
by Will Bunch, STAFF COLUMNIST @will_bunch | bunchw@phillynews.com

— “Wait a minute, boys. We’re not going to be reconstructing the dollar. We’re going to be grubbing for worms.”

— President Dwight Eisenhower, interrupting a 1950s White House meeting at which aides were discussing restoring the money supply after an all-out nuclear war

For 72 years, they’ve tried to warn us that a time like this would come.

The world-renowned scientist Albert Einstein — whose 1939 letter to President Franklin Roosevelt played a critical role leading to the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki — tried to warn us, writing in 1952 to lament his role and to argue that continued development of nuclear warheads “leads inevitable (sic) to war, which, in turn, under today’s conditions, spells universal destruction.”

The president who made the fateful decision to drop those two bombs on Japan in 1945 — Harry Truman — tried to warn us, stating in his 1953 farewell address that “starting an atomic war is totally unthinkable for rational men.”

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