Introduction 9
Images from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945 15
Chapter 1 The Erratic President -Harry Segal, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University 23
Chapter 2 DEFCON 2? Nuclear Risk is Rising as Donald Trump Goes Downhill -John Gartner, Ph.D., Founder, Duty To Warn 27
Chapter 3 If President Trump Were Airman Trump, I Would Not Certify Him Psychologically Fit to Handle Nuclear Weapons -Steven Buser, M.D., Psychiatrist, Former Major, USAF 35
Chapter 4 If Trump Were a Policeman I Would Have to Take Away His Gun -David Reiss, M.D., Psychiatrist in Private Practice 41
Chapter 5 If Trump Was Entering the Military, He Would Not Receive a Security Clearance -William Enyart, Former U.S. Congressman from Illinois and Retired General, U.S. Army National Guard 47
Images from the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 1945 53
Chapter 6 A Man with No Humanity Has the Power to Destroy Mankind -Lance Dodes, M.D., Boston Psychoanalytic Society 57
Chapter 7 Trump’s Sick Psyche and Nuclear Weapons: A Deadly Mixture -Gordon Humphrey, former Republican Senator of New Hampshire 61 Chapter 8 Facing the Truth: Trump Wields the Power of a Predatory Narcissist and May Destroy Us All -Jacqueline West, Ph.D., New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts 65
Chapter 9 Trump’s No Madman, He’s Following the Strongman Playbook -Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Department of History, New York University 71 Building Your Own Bomb Shelter (1950’s Photo Images) 75
Will the “Dealmaker” Make a Deal or Start a War? 79
Chapter 10 The Gospel of War Presidency -Richard Painter, Former Chief White House Ethics Lawyer and Leanne Watt, Ph.D., Psychologist in Private Practice
Chapter 11 The Greatest Danger to America is Her Commander in Chief -Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund 107 Chapter 12 Bluffing Us Into the Nuclear Abyss? What October 1962 Teaches Us About Nuclear Risks Under Trump -James Blight and Janet Lang, Department of History, University of Waterloo 115 Images from the Cuban Missile Crisis 121 Chapter 13 One Week in August: How a Self-Made Nuclear Crisis Exposed Donald Trump’s Psychopathology -Seth Norrholm Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Emory University 125 Chapter 14 The Bully-in-Chief: Trump and Kim Jong-Un Could Destroy the World to Prove Who Has the Bigger Button -Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., Stanford University (emeritus) and Rosemary Sword, Private Practice 133 Chapter 15 American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump -Melvin Goodman, Department of Foreign Relations, Johns Hopkins University 139 Chapter 16 Taking Trump’s Finger off the Nuclear Button -Tom Z. Collina, Director of Policy, Ploughshares Fund 143 1950s Civil Defense Pamphlet (Photo Images) 149 Chapter 17 Is Donald Trump a Fascist? -Bård Larsen, Historian, Civita 153 Chapter 18 The Relentless Victim: How Donald Trump Reinforces North Korea’s Narrative -Paul French, Freelance Writer 161 Chapter 19 Trump and North Korea: The Offer for Talks Was Impulsive, but Could it Work? -Stephan Haggard, Director, Korea-Pacific Program, University of California, San Diego 167 Chapter 20 The Art of the North Korea Deal: If Trump Can Understand Kim’s Fears, We Can Have Peace on the Korean Peninsula -Harry Kazianis, Director of Defense Studies, The Center for the National Interest 173 Chapter 21 Madman or Rational Actor? Kim Jong-un’s Nuclear Calculus -Ken Gause, Director, International Affairs Group CNA Corporation 181 Chapter 22 Nuclear Deterrence and Leadership Behavior: How Presidential Actions Raise or Lower the Risk of War -James E. Doyle, Ph.D. Former Nuclear Nonproliferation Analyst, Los Alamos National Laboratory 191 Chapter 23 Extinction Anxiety and Donald Trump: Where the Spirit of the Depths Meets the Spirit of the Times -Thomas Singer, M.D. 205 Afterword -Leonard Cruz, Editor-in-Chief, Chiron Publications 213 Contributing Authors 221
