What about the two-man rule?
An op-ed of mine for @washingtonpost:"No one can stop President Trump from using nuclear weapons. That’s by design."https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/01/no-one-can-stop-president-trump-from-using-nuclear-weapons-thats-by-design/ …
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Does not apply to President; applies to launch officers.
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So this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football#Operation … and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Command_Authority#Authorization_of_a_nuclear_or_strategic_attack … are wrong? They say that SecDef must concur.
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It is as I describe. President orders SecDef. SecDef orders military. No discussion about whether SecDef must concur, can veto, etc.
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@wellerstein But... anyone who followed such an order could be guilty of war crimes under international law http://www.dannen.com/decision/int-law.html … -
US gov explicitly does not consider itself bound by ICJ decisions; treaty issues more thorny, but has always reserved 1st strike
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POTUS must say yes (and PAL/football enforces it) but other people in the chain must say yes too, right?
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The question is whether they can say "no." That has never been resolved unambiguously despite obvious import.
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Are ppl really that NUTTY to assume Trump would launch a strike? Also: the hub of his fortune is primary target
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The guy has a brittle, easily-wounded personality. People are worried that he might do some kind of one-off in the Middle East.
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Pretty sure we've all heard of the states. A thinking mind can worry about many things simultaneously. https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat …
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I would like to know if you believe that we should be genuinely concerned about Trump using nuclear weapons.
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It's not the top of my list, but it's on the list. See end of here for longer discussion:http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/11/18/the-president-and-the-bomb/ …
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Thank you for the response, very informative! BTW, You were my first tweet!
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In August,
@RepTedLieu announced he would introduce a bill requiring Congress to approve use of nukes.https://thinkprogress.org/congressman-proposes-law-to-prevent-trump-from-being-able-to-launch-nukes-on-his-own-a02cf6a3bb5#.d3j4t9bdx … -
Huh! Somehow I missed that. Super interesting.
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Hysterical politics when people viciously assume he would risk devastating retaliation. Same for anybody else.
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There are plenty of situations where a president could (and has) been temped to use nukes against non-nuclear nations.
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I can't fathom disastrous non-intervention by other nuclear nations in that scenario. The unknowns are too costly.
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