Peril Encapsulated: Mr Trump and Half Decades

peril encapsulated: Since then, the immediate peril encapsulated in Donald Trump's threats of fire and fury to North Korea has receded, according to The Guardian. But Mr Trump should take no credit for pressing pause on a crisis largely of his own making. Last year, the bulletin moved the hands forwards 30 seconds, to reach two minutes to midnight the closest to catastrophe in six and a half decades. His actions have exacerbated existing problems on the Korean peninsula, and elsewhere. So it should be no surprise he has proved reckless in office. As a candidate, Mr Trump is said to have asked why the US could not use nuclear weapons. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.