Burnt Orange Report

It's the Nuclear Holocaust, Stupid.

By Jim Dallas

I think it's apparent now, if it wasn't pre-debate, that Kerry's trump-card on foreign policy is being played: nuclear proliferation.

For the last week there's been a lot of chatter surrounding proliferation issues, revolving mostly around Graham Allison's book Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, which has gotten considerable press despite being mired at #367 in the Amazon sales rankings.

That isn't to say that Kerry is latching on to a newly-salient issue; I think there's probably been some strategy to do this for a while, because it's so obviously effective as political ju-jitsu. The thing speaks for itself.

Moreover, anti-nuclearism should have broad public appeal, especially among the "base" that has needed a little prodding.

I hope we will continue to hear a lot about this, because I think it could be a very effective issue.