I know our political dialogue isn’t so hot right now, but here’s an idea: In the final days of the Trump presidency, let’s maybe leave nuclear weapons out of it? Flirtation with thermonuclear heat is ill-inclined to be in the nation’s better interest.

I say this in light of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement on Friday that she has spoken “to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.” A spokesperson for Milley says that the chairman simply briefed Pelosi on the nuclear command authority.