I don't believe Schlesinger.https://twitter.com/senwhitehouse/status/920844618455019526 …
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I'm always skeptical. But it's the first "solid" thing I've seen on this, beyond rumors. I'm still pursuing it...
If it is true, it implies that there are probably other people who saw said order, or that — potentially — one could get paper evidence.
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This needs to be verified beyond Jeffrey Smith's undocumented recollection, but I know smthg of him and he strikes me as a reliable source.
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I agree. We need a new sustained, serious historical/policy study of Presidential nuclear use capability. And this needs to be part of it.
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We need a symposium with all the relevant scholars, and recent former SecDefs. We need to all be working from the same set of facts.
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Agree 100%. Need to know what we really know, where areas of legitimate uncertainty are, etc.
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So, you are an academic. Find some funding and set it up. I'll happily moderate panels...
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Working on it, in fact... :-)
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Just saw this is happening (not the same thing as we were discussing, but related): https://artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/presidential-first-use-nuclear-weapons-it-legal-it-constitutional-it-just …
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