Regardless of how you feel about the current administration Nuclear War is, very possibly, on the horizon. It’s not something to be taken lightly, and should be feared with good reason. The headlines have been dotting the media, it’s almost all they can talk about at this point. It’s something that everyone should educate themselves on and how they can protect themselves and their families should we reach this point. In blatant terms, the start of a Nuclear War is the end of the human race and life as we know it.

Han Tae Song, one of the head diplomats for North Korea said in a meeting on Tuesday September, 5th that he was ‘ “proud’ “ of North Korea’s latest missile test on September 3rd. The missile they tested is supposedly able to carry a hydrogen bomb within it. An atomic bomb is scary by itself, but a hydrogen bomb is just a tad worse. Reason being is because the bomb that is supposed to be able to be carried in said missile created an explosion that equaled 120 kilotons TNT. While that may not mean much to someone who isn’t familiar with that term, that value is equal to an amount of TNT larger than 264.55 million pounds of TNT. That’s a lot of damn TNT.

While the Pentagon has options to deal with this problem, none of them are good, none of them are easy, and they all have complications. They could call for a tomahawk missile strike on the areas where the caches of weapons may be. One issue that comes with this strategy is that most of the caches are supposedly underground and not visible from the surface, making them even harder to find and destroy. Another issue is some of the areas the missiles are launched from are mobile batteries. It’s clear the Pentagon wants to do something about this, but they’re running into issues as to what to do. There’s also the Elephant in the room: a strike on North Korea could warrant a strike from China, and, possibly, even Russia.

North Korea has completely ignored the international community and has continued testing increasingly dangerous nuclear weapons. Song, in the meeting, also stated ‘ “North Korea will never put its nuclear testing program on the table for negotiation [and that] sanctions and pressure will never work.’ “ It’s a scary thought, truly. The only thing we can do as citizens is hope that President Trump will tread this path carefully, play his cards wisely, and choose the best course of action to handle this situation.