Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Uncle John Taught Trump About Fire and Fury

When the president reflects on nuclear weapons, he likes to remind listeners that he's the nephew of an MIT physicist.

August 9, 2017 at 7:35 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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President Donald Trump returned this week to a recurring and favorite theme of his over the years: nuclear war and annihilation.

He has thought quite a bit about the topic. Really.