I don't believe Schlesinger.https://twitter.com/senwhitehouse/status/920844618455019526 …
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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.
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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Looks like a really good program.
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Although, I'd guess the conclusions are kind of baked into the panel, and the way the question is asked
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Yes, we do, but more importantly we need a study of better alternatives to the current, unchallenged sole authority model.
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$5 bucks says all this will go away just as soon as a "normal" person is POTUS.
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Public attn may decrease, but that's no excuse for Congress and military to avoid reviewing and revising some clearly problematic policies.
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I totally agree, it's the only way forward. Current situation a genuine danger to the entire world.
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