A Glaring but Blinding Nuclear Hypocrisy
Scott Fine / Santa Maria Times
(June 24, 2025) — On June 22, the day after the US sent B-2 bombers to unload 30,000-pound bombs on three uranium enrichment facilities in Iran, the Trump administration released a White House newsletter titled, “What they are saying: President Trump’s display of peace through strength.”
The newsletter comprises a long list of comments by US senators and representatives stating support for President Trump’s ordering of the bombing, and broad condemnation of Iran’s government.
An alternative read on the newsletter sees no display of peace, but rather, boasting, bullying, and bigotry with alarming consequences dispelling most hope for peace in the Middle East.
What the US has undertaken over several of its presidential administrations and their unquestioning alliance with Israel (a nation estimated to have 90 nuclear warheads, but refuses to admit to), amounts to radical hypocrisy and disregard for a humane world order.
Nuclear weaponry lies at the heart of this lawless ruthlessness.
Consider American nuclear military policy.
Despite having the most powerful, “conventional” military force on our planet, the US — which brought nuclear weapons into the world and is the only nation to have used them — maintains an advanced and extensive nuclear arsenal.
Many deem America’s nuclear force as a necessary evil: an essential deterrence for our nation’s security. The reality of the US nuclear arsenal and how it will be employed, however, is far different from this thinking.
Ironically, this reality stares Americans in the face!
The US Department of Defense periodically publishes its nuclear military policy in a document titled the “Nuclear Posture Review” (NPR). The current document was published in 2022 under the command of President Biden.
The NPR has a striking statement that brings under question, “deterrence” as the purpose of the American nuclear arsenal. The statement reads as follows:
“We conducted a thorough review of a broad range of options for nuclear declaratory policy — including both No First Use and Sole Purpose policies — and concluded that those approaches would result in an unacceptable level of risk in light of the range of non-nuclear capabilities being developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic-level damage to the United States and its Allies and partners.”
In simpler terms, the US military retains the possibility of throwing the first nuclear punch in a military conflict with an adversary that is using nonnuclear arms. Think about this. Shouldn’t one ask, who’s the real bad guy in this scenario?
Americans should also take a good look at how the US military portrays the capacity of its nuclear arsenal.
They should reasonably expect their military to be somewhat reserved in this regard, given the monstrous outcome that nuclear war will bring: the eradication of humanity.
Yet, the US Department of Defense flagrantly showcases its nuclear weaponry.
Readers are urged to Google, “America’s Nuclear Triad.” There on the Department of Defense webpage, they will be treated to a flashy, arrogant, multimedia presentation, resembling a violent video game bursting with bravado, muscle-flexing, and testosterone.
Indeed, the Department of Defense holds little back in depicting its access to military jets, Trident submarines, and land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for delivering massively destructive thermal nuclear war heads around the world.
Americans can also observe nuclear weapons in real life. There are 400 silos holding ICBMs, on alert, located in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. Several times a year, an ICBM is transported by vehicle to Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Central Coast of California, where it is launched and sent approximately 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The US military tests its ICBM system in this manner. The missileers who will fire off the ICBMs are also trained at Vandenberg.
The United Nations adopted the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which “entered into force” in 2021, banning the production and possession of all nuclear weapons.
Nonetheless, nine nations, including the US and Israel, have nuclear weapons. Six other nations host nuclear weapons on behalf of those nations that possess them. Consequently, all these nations, including the US and Israel, are violating international law.
So given this contemporary, global context of nuclear weaponry, and from an objective perspective, isn’t it logical, if not fair, for Iran to also produce and possess nuclear weapons, like the US and Israel have done?
Many Americans, including the members of the Trump administration, argue that Iran cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons because it presents a terroristic threat.
Likely, a majority of Americans supported the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities by the US and Israel for this reason. However, neither the US nor Israel have provided clear evidence that Iran has been working to create nuclear weapons.
On the contrary, as recently as June 18, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, stated there had been no reporting of Iran pursuing nuclear weapons for over 20 years.
One can conclude there is a gross lack of critical thinking in determining which nations should be trusted or not.
Afterall, it is the leadership of Israel that has been charged with crimes against humanity in what most of the world sees as genocide in its slaughter and current starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza.
And has not the United States helped enable this atrocity by arming Israel?
Again, we should ask, who are the good guys and the bad guys in the world?
For the sake of all humanity, Americans, open your eyes.
