Can Trump Actually Start a Nuclear War?

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5. As a senior in college...

I wrote a paper on this very subject. People fail to realize exactly what the president's powers are and are not. The two big arenas open to them to get into trouble (read: largely unchecked) are war and foreign trade.... The two arenas Trump has alluded to doing "huge things" in.

His war making powers - including atomic war - are virtually unchecked. In my paper, I concluded that one day, this unchecked power may be the biggest oversight of the founders. (Of course, many of them never imagined the USA would even have a standing army... that an army would be raised on an as needed basis, or that we would simply pay foreign nations to use their military to protect us.)

"The generals" are largely powerless to stop Trump. Also, his power over and who is - and is not - an officer in the military is near absolute. I would expect a quiet purge to go on throughout this year of any high ranking military officers who might not be loyal to him.