Shaken By Trump, Senators Ask: What Stops Him From Launching Nukes?
For the first time in decades, Congress re-examines a president's unilateral authority to launch a nuclear attack — but the Pentagon says no changes are needed.
by David Welna
Nov 15, 2017
2 minutes
Critics in the Senate have posed a high-stakes question: Can anything keep President Trump from launching a nuclear attack on his own?
"We are concerned that the president of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step
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