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Nuclear Situational Updates from the Decom Working Group

Each week we are honored to join the Decommissioning Working Group, a community of sister and brother activists from various organizations in a Zoom meeting in which information about nuclear-related developments are shared in a sweep across the country for on-the-ground reports.

Just a brief summary of our notes from today’s DWG Zoom confab gives a synoptic nuclear situational awareness view of what can be described as an ongoing nuclear complex coup.

We have stolen the above title from a wry quip by meeting participant Paul Gunther of Beyond Nuclear.

In a series of recent executive orders, the Trump Administrations has detonated a demolition bomb in the existing architecture of nuclear energy regulation and arms control. [ See background links below.] The volley of moves combined have the unified goal of ushering in a so-called ‘American nuclear energy revival.’ They aim to:

1. Dismantle nuclear safety oversight by regulatory agencies;

Medium.com reports that Aaron Manley Smith published an article which is titled Chat GPT Analyzes Trump’s Alleged Assassination Attempt. “I asked ChatGPT Pro (the one you have to actually pay thousands of dollars for, not some freebie thing) to study this image closely…and we went down the rabbit hole”. The article itself is behind a $5 paywall. I will not publish it in it's entirety but enough that the reader may want to follow the link for the entire article.

Introduction 

This post focuses on examples of Trump’s inflated self-image as a president who sees himself as being above the law, his implausible notion of making manufacturing in the U.S. a dominating global force, and how, as one example, his policies harm the poor.

#1 - A thirst for power

Trump casts himself as a superior president, among the best 3 or 4 presidents in U.S. history. Indeed, he has said his presidency is like being a king. He has also viewed himself as a “messiah,” as Robert Reich notes, Donald Trump keeps comparing himself to Jesus. “Whether he actually has a messiah complex or is just conning his supporters, he's playing to a growing GOP faction that wants America to be a white Christian Nationalist state, with Donald Trump as a divine ruler. Be Warned” (https://tiktok.com/rbreich/video/7384440520371899694)

There were quite a lot of what Donald Trump might describe as “bad things” taking place in Washington over the past week, to include the worsening of relations with China shortly after what appeared to be an agreement had been reached over tariffs; the arrival at an apparent impasse in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program; and friction with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over possible initi