WASHINGTON — Here’s a question rarely raised before Donald Trump ran for the White House: If the president ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike, could anyone stop him? The nature of the U.S. political world has changed, too, and Trump’s opponents — even within his own party — question whether he has too much power over nuclear weapons. Some aspects of presidential nuclear war-making powers are secret and therefore not well understood by the public. Unlike North Korea, Russia has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the U.S. in minutes. He would then transmit the launch order to the Pentagon and Strategic Command.

Source: National Post November 13, 2017 20:15 UTC