Military advisers have few options
By Dan Lamothe
August 10 at 5:59 PM
The dueling threats issued by President Trump and the North Korean military have prompted questions about U.S. procedures to launch a preemptive nuclear attack ...
The arrangement has existed for decades, but is salient after Trump warned Tuesday that future threats by North Korea will be "met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before" ...
"I was not elected. The American people elected the president," Mattis told reporters traveling with him Wednesday to the West Coast. “The rhetoric is up to the president” ...
A December 2016 assessment by the Congressional Research Service stated that the president "does not need the concurrence of either his military advisors or the U.S. Congress to order the launch of nuclear weapons." Additionally, the assessment said, "neither the military nor Congress can overrule these orders" ...
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