Rocket Man

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 Contents: 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 Weapons: A Deadly Mixture -Gordon Humphrey, former Republican Senator Chapter 8: Facing the Truth: 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 August -Seth Norrholm PhD Chapter 14: The Bully-in-Chief -Philip Zimbardo, PhD & Rosemary Sword Chapter 15: American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump -Melvin Goodman, Johns Hopkins Chapter 16: Taking Trump's Finger off the Nuclear Button -Tom Collina, Director of Policy, Ploughshares Fund Chapter 17: Is Donald Trump a Fascist? -Bård Larsen, Historian Chapter 18: The Relentless Victim: How Donald Trump Reinforces North Korea's Narrative -Paul French, Freelance Writer Chapter 19: Trump and North Korea: 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 Doyle, PhD Former Nuclear Nonproliferation Analyst, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chapter 23: Extinction Anxiety and Donald Trump -Thomas Singer, MD Afterword: Visions of Apocalypse and Salvation -Leonard Cruz, MD