Scary: US Presidents Still Have Unchecked Authority To Launch Nuclear First-Strike

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. There’s an important, if scary, opinion piece today at The Washington Post by Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists and former National Security Council senior director under President Barack Obama. He cites the (still) current remnant of … Continue reading "Scary: US Presidents Still Have Unchecked Authority To Launch Nuclear First-Strike"
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