The Button: America’s Nuclear Weapons and Iran

Three new warheads, each designed to make use more thinkable. A target that no conventional weapon can reach. A president at 37% with sole authority to launch – and no system to stop him.

Grüezi!

• The US is days into a war with Iran that has closed the Strait of Hormuz, and sent oil past $100 a barrel. The president’s approval rating is at its lowest point of his second term. The Epstein files are closing in.

• The one thing the war was supposed to achieve – destroying Iran’s nuclear programme – remains beyond the reach of any conventional w…