The president has usurped power properly belonging to Congress, in large part because of the executive’s sole discretion over the use of atomic weapons. How can one speak of Congress as having war-making authority, if the president controls the nuclear “football”? FULL ARTICLE by David Gordon
Source link: http://archive.mises.org/12621/the-person-with-the-bomb-rules/
The Person with the Bomb Rules
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Kind of funny that this ends up being a literal send-up of the classic “Atomic Hand Grenade” from Game Theory.
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