Question:Could #45 simply order a PREEMPTIVE nuclear strike on a country by pushing a button with NO

[BigBearJohn]

Last edited Mon Feb 20, 2017, 11:00 AM - Edit history (3)

safeguards available to prevent such a disaster? In other words, can he simply launch missiles at any country when the mood hits him?

[Vinca]

1. I think so. Which is why the future of the nation rests with military people defying him. Scary.

[lapfog_1]

2. the military could refuse to follow the order

if they thought it was illegal.

the question is would they?

[KittyWampus]

3. Push a button? You mean the nuclear button? I think the military would intervene.

But if you mean an invasion or bombing? That requires a lot of groundwork before it happens.

[RKP5637]

4. I think he's the ultimate decider. To me, it's too much power in one person's hands no matter

who the president is, because it seems void of any checks or balances. I think the rationale is, if there were an incoming threat seconds are at play, so there is really no time to convene/discuss. The way it's supposed to work, I think, is that by the time it reaches the president's level it's been well vetted. The problem I see with Trump, for example, is he seems to trust none and shoots from the hip.

[madokie]

5. If that person is Sane

it doesn't worry me so much but this mutherfuker is not SANE by the stretch of anyones imagination.

We must get dRumpf out of our House and in a rubber room somewhere, anywhere would be fine just get him the hell out of the oval office

[RKP5637]

6. Imagine him trying to negotiate what JFK did with the Cuban missile crisis, seconds from

a nuclear war. FFS, I think Trump would hit the button.

[madokie]

7. We wouldn't be here today

and we won't be here tomorrow is another situation like that comes about. dRumpF is one BARKING MAD, Dangerous person

[RKP5637]

8. ...

[Orrex]

9. I wonder if they gave him the *actual* nuclear football

"Uh, sure Don. This is totally the real thing."