President Donald Trump’s penchant for impulsively making sweeping policy decisions on the fly is one of his most unsettling personality traits. Whether it’s ever-shifting tariffs seemingly based on little but his moods, or demolishing part of the White House to construct a vulgar monstrosity of a ballroom without a word to Congress, or the unilateral and adolescent-minded renaming of the Defense Department to the “Department of War,” this president’s decision-making process is the polar opposite of thoughtful deliberation.

That unsettling trait becomes terrifying on the topic of America’s nuclear arsenal. But Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will resume nuclear testing that was halted after the Cold War, while dangerous, could and should open up a wider discussion the nation must have a

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