Checks on Nuclear Power

[Danoh]

...Is there any check on a president’s power to launch nuclear arms that could destroy entire cities or nations?

The short answer is no, though history suggests that in practice, there may be ways to slow down or even derail the decision-making process. No one disputes, however, that the president has an awesome authority...

...Then, in 1974, in the last days of the Watergate scandal, Mr. Nixon was drinking heavily and his aides saw what they feared was a growing emotional instability. His new secretary of defense, James R. Schlesinger, himself a hawkish Cold Warrior, instructed the military to divert any emergency orders — especially one involving nuclear weapons — to him or the secretary of state, Henry A. Kissinger.

It was a completely extralegal order, perhaps mutinous. But no one questioned it.

“Although Schlesinger’s order raised questions about who was actually in command,” Eric Schlosser writes in “Command and Control,” a 2013 book, “it seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Experts agree that the real nightmare of nuclear command centers not on launching attacks, but responding to them...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/science/donald-trump-nuclear-codes.html

 

[patrick jane]

Trust Trump

 

[Danoh]

Trust Trump

Tell that to the millions of small investors he (with the help of Bill Clinton's well known high organizational skills) screwed millions across the country, out of hundreds of millions of dollars, in that Vegas investment scam, he and Slick Willy put together, back when Trump was "a Democrat" (for the minute that scam required).

Wake up PJ, rub those precious little eyes of yours, wash your face, get out of your pjs and into the clothes of reality - your idol is an incompetent, self-deluded scam artist.

Follow the moral compass that is Romans 5:8 for your - "salvation."

"Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more" - 2 Corinthians 5:16.

That's 2nd, not "two Corinthians" by the way :chuckle: