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Rocket Man: Nuclear Madness and the Mind of Donald Trump
Will President Trump destroy civilization or win the Nobel Peace Prize? Humankind’s survival feels like a jump ball that could go either way. We are perched on a precipice, and the reason we are looking into an abyss of nuclear annihilation is that the American president has unencumbered, unilateral control over the nuclear codes. One thing we know for sure is that the mind of Donald Trump is currently in control of our fate. Never before have the nuclear codes been in the hands of a man who many observers view as unstable and erratic. The twenty-four experts who contributed to this book analyze President Trump’s behavior hoping to provide insights into what may be the most urgent question of our time. What will Trump do with his “big button?”
Table of
Chapter 1: The Erratic President
-Harry Segal, PhD, Cornell University
Chapter 2: Nuclear Risk is Rising as Donald Trump Goes Downhill
-John Gartner, PhD, Founder, Duty To Warn
Chapter 3: If President Trump Were Airman Trump, I Would Not Certify Him Psychologically Fit to Handle Nuclear Weapons
-Steven Buser, MD, Psychiatrist, Former Major, USAF
Chapter 4: If Trump Were a Policeman I Would Have to Take Away His Gun
-David Reiss, MD
Chapter 5: If Trump Was Entering the Military, He Would Not Receive a Security Clearance
-William Enyart, Former U.S. Congressman & Retired General
Chapter 6: A Man with No Humanity Has the Power to Destroy Mankind
-Lance Dodes, MD
Chapter 7: Trump’s Sick Psyche and Nuclear A Deadly Mixture
-Gordon Humphrey, former Republican Senator
Chapter 8: Facing the The Power of a Predatory Narcissist
-Jacqueline West, PhD
Chapter 9: Trump’s No Madman, He’s Following the Strongman Playbook
-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Dept. of History, NYU
Chapter 10: The Gospel of War Presidency
-Richard Painter, Former Chief White House Ethics Lawyer
-& Leanne Watt, PhD
Chapter 11: The Greatest Danger to America is Her Commander in Chief
-Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Chapter 12: Bluffing Us Into the Nuclear Abyss?
-James Blight and Janet Lang, Dept. of History, Univ. of Waterloo
Chapter 13: One Week in How a Self-Made Nuclear Crisis Exposed Donald Trump’s Psychopathology
-Seth Norrholm PhD
Chapter 14: The Bully-in-Chief
-Philip Zimbardo, PhD & Rosemary Sword
Chapter 15: American The Wars of Donald Trump
-Melvin Goodman, Johns Hopkins
Chapter 16: Taking Trump’s Finger off the Nuclear Button
-Tom Z. Collina, Director of Policy, Ploughshares Fund
Chapter 17: Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
-Bård Larsen, Historian
Chapter 18: The Relentless How Donald Trump Reinforces North Korea’s Narrative
-Paul French, Freelance Writer
Chapter 19: Trump and North The Offer for Talks Was Impulsive, but Could it Work?
-Stephan Haggard, Director, Korea-Pacific Program
Chapter 20: The Art of the North Korea Deal
-Harry Kazianis, Director of Defense Studies, The Center for the National Interest
Chapter 21: Madman or Rational Actor? Kim Jong-un’s Nuclear Calculus
-Ken Gause, Director, International Affairs Group CNA Corporation
Chapter 22: How Presidential Actions Raise or Lower the Risk of War
-James E. Doyle, PhD Former Nuclear Nonproliferation Analyst, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chapter 23: Extinction Anxiety and Donald Trump
-Thomas Singer, MD
Visions of Apocalypse and Salvation
-Leonard Cruz, MD
Table of
Chapter 1: The Erratic President
-Harry Segal, PhD, Cornell University
Chapter 2: Nuclear Risk is Rising as Donald Trump Goes Downhill
-John Gartner, PhD, Founder, Duty To Warn
Chapter 3: If President Trump Were Airman Trump, I Would Not Certify Him Psychologically Fit to Handle Nuclear Weapons
-Steven Buser, MD, Psychiatrist, Former Major, USAF
Chapter 4: If Trump Were a Policeman I Would Have to Take Away His Gun
-David Reiss, MD
Chapter 5: If Trump Was Entering the Military, He Would Not Receive a Security Clearance
-William Enyart, Former U.S. Congressman & Retired General
Chapter 6: A Man with No Humanity Has the Power to Destroy Mankind
-Lance Dodes, MD
Chapter 7: Trump’s Sick Psyche and Nuclear A Deadly Mixture
-Gordon Humphrey, former Republican Senator
Chapter 8: Facing the The Power of a Predatory Narcissist
-Jacqueline West, PhD
Chapter 9: Trump’s No Madman, He’s Following the Strongman Playbook
-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Dept. of History, NYU
Chapter 10: The Gospel of War Presidency
-Richard Painter, Former Chief White House Ethics Lawyer
-& Leanne Watt, PhD
Chapter 11: The Greatest Danger to America is Her Commander in Chief
-Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Chapter 12: Bluffing Us Into the Nuclear Abyss?
-James Blight and Janet Lang, Dept. of History, Univ. of Waterloo
Chapter 13: One Week in How a Self-Made Nuclear Crisis Exposed Donald Trump’s Psychopathology
-Seth Norrholm PhD
Chapter 14: The Bully-in-Chief
-Philip Zimbardo, PhD & Rosemary Sword
Chapter 15: American The Wars of Donald Trump
-Melvin Goodman, Johns Hopkins
Chapter 16: Taking Trump’s Finger off the Nuclear Button
-Tom Z. Collina, Director of Policy, Ploughshares Fund
Chapter 17: Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
-Bård Larsen, Historian
Chapter 18: The Relentless How Donald Trump Reinforces North Korea’s Narrative
-Paul French, Freelance Writer
Chapter 19: Trump and North The Offer for Talks Was Impulsive, but Could it Work?
-Stephan Haggard, Director, Korea-Pacific Program
Chapter 20: The Art of the North Korea Deal
-Harry Kazianis, Director of Defense Studies, The Center for the National Interest
Chapter 21: Madman or Rational Actor? Kim Jong-un’s Nuclear Calculus
-Ken Gause, Director, International Affairs Group CNA Corporation
Chapter 22: How Presidential Actions Raise or Lower the Risk of War
-James E. Doyle, PhD Former Nuclear Nonproliferation Analyst, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chapter 23: Extinction Anxiety and Donald Trump
-Thomas Singer, MD
Visions of Apocalypse and Salvation
-Leonard Cruz, MD
226 pages, Paperback
Published June 9, 2018
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September 8, 2024
This book was written prior to the last presidential election, and the irony is that it focused on the incompetence of DJT, but he did not win the last election. The arguments for having more than one person make the decision to launch nuclear weapons certainly resonated with me, particularly as Biden's mental competence faded before my eyes. Simply substitute the current candidate's name for DJT, and the book has several reasons to negotiate treaties to limit nuclear weaponry. I gave it 3 stars because it projected too much on the psychology of DJT without factoring in that it could apply to the narcissistic and criminal mindset of ANY candidate that comes into power. Or, develops Alzheimers / Dementia once in office.
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