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(Photo: Dr Case / Flickr)Donald Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to governing has left Washington in a shambles. Instead of presiding as a caretaker, Trump has proven to be more comfortable in the role of an undertaker.

One would hope the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would be spared. If only. Under Trump, the nation’s premiere health protection agency has been given an unsettling new task: to promote acceptance of the greatest looming threat to human life — nuclear war.

Under Trump, the CDC was recruited to host a January 16 press briefing on the “Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation.” The intent appeared to be normalize the prospect of nuclear war by offering US families a checklist they could use to eke out a living in the smoking rubble of a post-nuclear landscape.

As it turned out, this attempt to…