Earth To Rex Tillerson

      Within the last 24 hours:  
      The news broke that U.S. intelligence has determined that North Korea has a miniature nuclear weapon that can fit inside its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
     Donald Trump  threatened to unleash on North Korea  "fire and fury like the world has never seen."
      North Korea  threatened back to create an "enveloping fire" around the U.S. Territory of Guam.

     And  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, looking all benign and wise-old-grandfatherly,  summed up the situation by saying that actually this has been a "pretty good week" with North Korea and that "Americans should sleep well at night" because this was all just Donald Trump talking to Kim Jong Un in language he understands, that Kim Jong Un is feeling the pressure and that's why he's ratcheting up the rhetoric.

     North Korea immediately ratcheted back  that Donald Trump's threat was "a load of nonsense,"  that only "absolute force" would work on someone so  "bereft of all reason"  as Trump,  and that if threatened North Korea would  turn the U.S. mainland into "a theater of nuclear war."  But in the meantime their  military is  finalizing a plan to shoot four missiles off the coast of Guam in a week or two.
     And we're supposed to sleep well at night....because?
     Surely not because, as Donald Trump tweet-bragged a few hours ago, our nuclear arsenal is more powerful than ever since he became President.  True, we have the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, about 5,000 bombs.  North Korea, on the other hand, has only has 60 bombs.
    But it would only take about 50 to kill the planet.

   That's according to a terrifying documentary I saw on the subject called "Command and Control."

     So once you get above 50 nuclear bombs in your arsenal it's kind of moot, anyway.  Kind of like the vitamin pills you take that give you 6,000 % of your daily requirement when all you need is 100%.
     Look, the thing is, we all know what this sudden proliferation of hostility is really about,

     Maybe right now what we need more than a chill Secretary of State is a trained child psychologist.

References:
http://time.com/4879527/kim-jong-un-north-korea-missile-could-strike-entire-continental-u-s/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/world/asia/north-korea-responds-sanctions-united-states.html?_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-now-making-missile-ready-nuclear-weapons-us-analysts-say/2017/08/08/e14b882a-7b6b-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/us/politics/north-korea-nuclear-threat-rex-tillerson.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-09/donald-trump-says-us-weapons-more-powerful-than-ever/8791398