Tulsi Gabbard Warns Of Potential 'Nuclear Holocaust'

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned of a potential "nuclear holocaust," claiming the world was closer to the "brink of annihilation" than any point in history in a three-minute video shared on her social media accounts Tuesday (June 10).

Gabbard recently visited Hiroshima, one of two Japanese cities in which two detonated atomic bombs killed hundreds of thousands during World War II, which she noted were "tiny compared to today's nuclear bombs."

“This is the reality of what’s at stake, what we are facing now,” Gabbard said.

“Because as we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” she added.

“Perhaps it’s because they are confident that they will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and for their families that regular people won’t have access to. So it’s up to us, the people, to speak up and demand an end to this madness,” Gabbard continued.

The video was shared amid the Trump administration's efforts to reach a new nuclear deal with Iran in which the country would agree to end all uranium enrichment, though President Donald Trump seemed to be increasingly pessimistic that one would get done during his exclusive interview with the New York Post's Miranda Devine on her podcast Pod Force One released on Wednesday (June 11).

"I don't know," Trump said when asked if he thought he could reach a deal in which Iran would agree to shutter its nuclear program. “I don’t know. I did think so, and I’m getting more and more — less confident about it.

“They seem to be delaying, and I think that’s a shame, but I’m less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago. Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of a deal being made.”

Gabbard's warning also came amid ongoing wars between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Gaza.