Viewpoint by Michele Nobile*
This is the second of a five-part article looking at US foreign policy in historical context and its global implications under President Donald Trump.
BERGAMO, Italy (IDN) – With the arrival of the Trump administration, the threshold of potential use of the nuclear weapon has been lowered considerably, according to a logic that appears a further and dangerous development of the preventive war applied to an elusive enemy such as terrorism and its allies (more or less real or presumed).
Not only would the United States feel fully responsible "whichever State, terrorist group or other non-state actor supports or contributes to the efforts of terrorists to acquire or use nuclear devices", but in the event of a nuclear attack by terrorists against the United States or its allies it would consider the "the ultimate form of retaliation", according to the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review.