The reason: Mutually assured destruction is a deterrent that requires the authority to retaliate quickly.
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the deterrence argument doesn’t hold water, though.
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Every American has a God given right to carry nuclear weapons.
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You might find this episode of RadioLab interesting. They discuss C-o-C concerns of one of the early nuke operators: http://www.radiolab.org/story/nukes/
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conventional weapons are plenty effective. Nuclear is a global concern, even Congress seems insufficient (but obv. nothing higher says yes)
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And the military resisted for a long time the idea that it was a civili authority, and not them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Development_and_dissemination …
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There's a really interesting (I think radiolab) podcast on that topic. One guy proposed surgically implanting the launch codes into the...
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heart someone who was always near the president, so that the president would have to kill one man before giving the order to kill millions.
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There is no reason the President of a democracy should be able to use nuclear weapons.
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Check out the episode on
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