A Message from RFK Jr

People are actually talking about using nuclear weapons now for the first time in my life since I was a kid.

There was a 13-Day period during the Cuban missile crisis when we were the closest in human history that we had ever come to global annihilation.

I remember the U.S. Marshalls coming to our house to take myself and my elder brother Joe to an underground city in the Blue Ridge Mountains in West Virginia — a place for the whole government to weather a thermonuclear cataclysm.

But my father called us and said we can’t go because it would send the nation into a panic. He told us to be good soldiers and show up at school. He also said that if there was a nuclear exchange, the ones that die would be better off than the people who are left.

Leaders like my father and uncle, John F. Kennedy, had a healthy fear of nuclear conflict during that period in American history. This is not so today.

What we are seeing from the anonymous men in lanyards, men and women in the White House, who are now making these calls is a reckless, cavalier approach to nuclear war.

In other words, the Biden administration’s lack of caution is putting our future at risk.

Just as my uncle and father before me, I will bring a heightened sobriety to the White House when it comes to matters of nuclear war. The stakes couldn’t be any higher!

The potential ramifications of such a conflict are catastrophic, and it is our duty to pursue all avenues that promote peace, diplomacy, and strategic decision-making.