WATCH LIVE: Senate committee holds hearing on presidents ability to authorize nuclear weapons

[mucifer]

At 10am eastern time:

The Senate Foreign Relations committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on the president’s ability to authorize nuclear weapons, something lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have debated since President’s Donald Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” in August.

“This discussion is long overdue,” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said in a statement ahead of the hearing, adding it was the first time since 1976 that the Senate or House “have looked specifically at the authority and process for using U.S. nuclear weapons.”

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on authority to order the use of nuclear weapons will begin around 10 a.m. ET Tuesday. Watch live in the player above.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-live-senate-committee-holds-hearing-on-presidents-ability-to-authorize-nuclear-weapons

[Lee-Lee]

1. Unfortunately there is little that can be done to limit it

The response time to use them when presented with an actual danger that necessitated their use is a very, very short window. Adding more people to the chain makes it take longer and more prone to not work properly.

You might put limits on first strike use, but I would question the Constitutional legitimacy of Congress stepping over that line in regards to the presidents lawful authority.