NYT Discovers Nuclear Testing is Bad, Now
The New York Times video meticulously documents Donald Trump's threat to restart nuclear weapon testing after a 30-year hiatus, citing concerns about Russia and China matching US capabilities. This immediate media outrage is striking, a sudden realization that nuclear brinkmanship is, in fact, dangerous. Yet, when successive US administrations, including Biden's, continue to support allies who
refuse to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)—countries like Israel, which maintains an undeclared nuclear arsenal—the NYT's alarm bells are conspicuously silent. It appears that the threat of nuclear proliferation only becomes a front-page crisis when a domestic political figure makes the threat, rather than when long-standing, globally destabilizing policies foster
its potential. One might wonder if the concern is truly about nuclear weapons, or merely about who is holding the microphone when the threat is uttered.