National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard issued a clear warning about the threat of nuclear war in a video posted in his staff. Account in xMarking a strong contrast to the previous comments made by former President Donald Trump on the same issue.
Gabbard, who recently visited Hiroshima, Japan, reflected on the devastation caused by the atomic bomb fell during World War II in a position on Tuesday. In the video, he warned that the political elite and the warmongers are promoting fear and tension, pushing us closer to “the edge of nuclear annihilation than ever.”
The three -minute video shows Gabbard visiting several reference points in Hiroshima. The video also describes in detail what a nuclear event could mean for the United States, including a simulation of a nuclear attack against San Francisco, California, which seems to destroy the Golden Gate bridge.
The director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a clear warning about the threat of nuclear war in a video he published on social networks on Tuesday.
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Gabbard’s comments were similar to the previous comments he has done in the campaign, however, the video was published days after traveling to Shangri-La dialogue, an important Asian conference held in Singapore, earlier this month.
“This is not an invented science fiction story. This is the reality of what is at stake, what we face now, because as we are here today, closer to the edge of nuclear annihilation that never before, the political elite and the warnings are promoting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” Gabbard said in the video.
Part of the video simulates a nuclear attack against San Francisco, destroying the Golden Gate bridge.
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“Perhaps it is because they trust that they will have access to nuclear shelters for them and for their families to which regular people will not have access,” he added.
Gabbard asked people to “talk and demand the end of this madness.”
“We must reject this path to nuclear war and work towards a world where no one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust,” said Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard, who recently visited Hiroshima, Japan, reflected on the devastation caused by the atomic bomb fell during World War II.
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Gabbard’s position contrasts with Trump’s previous comments on the use of nuclear weapons during World War II.
In 2016, while campaigning in San Diego, California, Trump criticized then President Barack Obama for visiting Hiroshima, calling him “pathetic.” He added that he didn’t care that Obama visited, “as long as he did not apologize” for dropping the bomb: “Who cares.”
More recently, on January 20, 2024, in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump mentioned Hiroshima again, this time to make a point about presidential immunity: “Hiroshima, not exactly a good act, but ended World War II, probably.
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Gabbard’s comments also echoed the rhetoric of his time as a Democratic presidential candidate, when she warned about the neoconservatives, the neoliberals and Trump himself.
In 2019, Gabbard said Trump “broke Iran’s nuclear agreement, and has taken measures since, step by step, to push us even closer and closer to the edge of nuclear war, to the edge of the war with Iran, which would be much more devastating than the war in Iraq, and taking us to the point at the point that every day there is no nuclear agreement with Iran, Iran is a closure to develop a nuclear weapon.”
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard attends a cabinet meeting at the White House, on April 10, 2025 in Washington.
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But when he supported Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign as independent last August, Gabbard changed his focus on President Joe Biden. Speaking at the Conference of the National Guard Association, he said that the administration of Biden-Harris “has faced multiple wars on multiple fronts and regions around the world, and closer to the edge of nuclear war than never before.”
Gabbard’s initial offer for the president in 2020 was caused by an erroneous ballistic missile alert that sent people in panic in Hawaii, thinking they were under attack. That moment inspired Hawaii’s former congressman to focus much of his campaign to end wars and seek peace. Although he has now aligned with the Republican Party and the Trump administration, this moment suggests that Gabbard is still betting an independent position on the global position of the United States, a deeply rooted in his former skepticism of the Washington establishment.
