Will we see nuclear shadow threaten mankind on Groundhog Day?

Forget Punxsutawney Phil this February 2 Groundhog Day. The real freight will not be Phil seeing his shadow, signaling six more weeks of this horrendous winter. Instead, Punxsutawney Donald will emerge from his presidential lair and decide if the US will stay or leave the Intermediate- Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Last November his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a threat to pull out of the INF in 60 days due to Russian non-compliance. That deadline falls on Groundhog Day. What's worse, US pullout from the INF threatens US pullout from the New Start Treaty which went into effect in 2011 and is being renegotiated to extend out to 2021. Punxsutawney Donald has called New Start a "one-sided, bad Obama Deal....and if countries are going to have nuclear weapons, we're going to be at the top of the pack." Nuclear experts fear such moves will make the nuclear problem "come back with a vengeance".

I'm not looking forward to this Groundhog Day. I'd sure settle for six more weeks of a cold, snowy winter...than six seconds of a nuclear winter.