Politics

Trump’s Acting National Security Adviser Claimed Nuclear War With USSR Was Winnable

ALARMING

Charles Kupperman acknowledged that nuclear war was a “destructive thing” but said it was essentially a “physics problem” in the 1980s.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

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Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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