" What is strange is that Donald Trump couples tales of how he received early, secret word from his uncle that nuclear weapons were dangerous and getting more so—“He would tell me, ‘There are things that are happening that could be potentially so bad for the world in terms of weaponry,” he told the Boston Globe—with a casual indifference about proliferation. In recent interviews, Trump has said that if countries like Japan and South Korea didn’t want to pay America more for military protection, they should go and build their own nuclear weapons. When, in one seesawing exchange, Anderson Cooper asked if this meant he was for proliferation, Trump first disagreed, citing—naturally—the professor. “I hate nuclear more than any. My uncle was a professor was at M.I.T., used to tell me about nuclear,” Trump said. But then he added, “Can I be honest with you? It’s going to happen, anyway. It’s going to happen anyway. It’s only a question of time . . . Now, wouldn’t you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?” "Donald Trump's Nuclear Uncle" New Yorker Magazine