His political affiliations are in conflict with his desire for long life, given who has the nuclear football.

I don’t care, I’m an atheist with no kids who’d be bored out of my mind before I hit 300 years old, much less 1,000.

If you're afraid of the nuclear football, isn't "standing right beside the person holding it" the best place to be, if you hope to have any shred of control over whether it gets dropped?

If you think you can convince him not to pull the trigger. I’d rather be standing at ground zero. Dying of radiation poisoning is an experience I don’t need to see to believe.

My father in law was at the bikini islands for the test runs (died of cancer), my great uncle was on the ground in Japan shorty after they dropped Hiroshima (died of cancer), and great uncle’s kids has Japanese rifles he recovered from sites that glowed in the dark as late as the mid 70s.

How's that NK thing going?