Senate to explore president's unchecked nuclear authority
WASHINGTON (AP) " Here's a question rarely raised before Donald Trump ran for the White House: If the president ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike, could anyone stop him?The answer is no.Not the Congress. Not his secretary of defense. And by design, not the military officers who would be duty-bound to execute the order.As Bruce Blair, a former nuclear missile launch officer and expert on nuclear command and control, has put it, "The protocol for ordering the use of [...]
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