Thread by @Cirincione

<THREAD> 1. I just finished recording a video for @natsecaction. I had a lot more to say than they could realistically use. If you don't mind, I'd like to share why I think @JoeBiden will strengthen our national security as president.

2. I have worked on national security issues in Washington for almost 40 years, in and out of government. I have opposed the policies of many presidents, Democratic and Republican. But I have never said this:

3. The number one threat to the national security of the United States comes not from North Korea or Iran or China or Russia. It comes from the president of the United States. The threat comes from within the White House.

4. Every threat that Trump inherited he's made worse with his policies: pandemics, climate change, nuclear weapons, economic inequality, racial injustice. He is destroying the key pillars of our security: our treaties, our alliances, our reputation, our credibility, our economy.

5. Trump poses a unique and serious nuclear threat. He is mentally unstable, yet retains complete, unfettered authority to launch one or one thousand nuclear weapons within minutes. No one can countermand the order, thanks to our obsolete nuclear command and control mechanisms.

6. Joe Biden will change this. He won't just bring us back to "normal," he won't just be a sane, experience leader; he'll bring an expanded, integrated view of national security to the White House. He understands climate change, pandemics, global inequities are security threats.

7. Biden has pledged to end the forever wars, restore diplomacy as "the premier tool of our global engagement" and rebuild the State Department crippled under Trump. joebiden.com/americanleader…

8. With Biden and Sen. Harris in the White House we will never see another photo of a national security team that is all white men. They will bring the diversity of America to America's national security leadership, improving the quality of our discussions and decisions.

9. Biden and Harris will replace division with unity, go-it-alone with alliances, wild conspiracy theories with fact-based analysis, "fire and fury" with strength and decency, incompetent sycophants with a deep bench of seasoned professionals.

10. On nuclear policy, Biden will recommit to the Iran anti-nuclear deal to curb Iran's program; engage in real talks to stop North Korea's program; extend New START; and reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our strategy. But there'll be struggles in the new administration, too.

11. We will have to press them to cut the excessive Pentagon budget back to sustainable, pre-9/11 levels; to eliminate the obsolete ICBMs that are more danger than protection; to end the hammerlock defense contractors have over policy. But these are debates we can have - and win.

12. With @JoeBiden, @KamalaHarris, a Democratic Senate and House, we'll finally be positioned to modernize our security strategies, to strengthen our alliances, revitalize our diplomatic core and move funding from corrupted weapons program to programs that protect all Americans.

13. That is why I am doing all I can to elect Democrats to the White House, Senate and House. That's why I support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Why do you support them?