Doyle McManus: Is there anything stopping Trump from launching a nuclear strike? Nope
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Nov 15, 2017
3 minutes
Here, in a nutshell, are the laws and procedures that limit President Donald Trump's power to launch a nuclear strike against North Korea anytime he likes:
There aren't any.
If the president wakes up one morning, turns on Fox News and decides that Kim Jong Un has ignored his warnings of "fire and fury" - by announcing, for example, that he has built a nuclear warhead that can reach California - Trump can annihilate
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