Nearly lost in the week's news — the nomination of an iconoclast to run the nation's health agency who is at odds with the nation's health experts, and an account of the former congressman chosen to be the chief law enforcement officer who, according to witnesses, had sex with a 17-year old near a pool — was a small item that has the potential of triggering a nuclear war.
Amid the parade of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, another president, sitting 5,666 miles from Mar-a-Lago, just adjusted the threshold Russia considers reasonable for the use of nuclear weapons. The new Cold War that Trump is two months from inheriting just got chillier.
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