From "Notes From a Subterranean Library in Oregon," a compilation of Ray Peat's newspaper letters and columns, compiled by T3Uncoupled (2023). Originally published 1985.

Ray Peat, "Power misplaced", p. 53

It’s hard to understand how Congress, which was constitutionally given the responsibility for deciding when to declare war, can allow one man to have the power to decide when to launch the missiles which could end the world. Especially when the man with this power is one who plans to honor dead Nazi soldiers while ignoring their genocide, and who has forgotten even which World War he is talking about: According to columnist Ellen Goodman, he said, “I felt since the German people have very few alive that remember even the war and certainly none of them who were adults and participating in any way…” I doubt that such a mentality would even be allowed to renew his driver’s license in Oregon, but in the White House he is allowed access to the Doomsday button.