It is increasingly difficult to take Pelosi seriously as the Speaker of the House. Pelosi said of her salon visit that the owner had set her up. Just the other day Pelosi made the public admission that she had spoken to General Milley about her concern about President Trump’s ability to launch a nuclear strike. General Milley assured Pelosi that safeguards were in place. How could Pelosi not know this fact? A brief history lesson: Not since President Truman has a president had the authority to command a nuclear strike on his lone volition. Truman did this not once, but twice to our World War Two foe, Japan.
Truman, a man diminutive in stature, a man that the Army’s West Point Academy had rejected, our last president who didn’t have a college degree, a person that had not been elected to the presidency, did become the most powerful president ever in the country’s history. When Major Thomas Ferebee pulled the trigger to drop the first nuclear bomb on Japan, Major Thomas Ferebee became the person to kill the most people with a single trigger pull. Major Thomas Ferebee killed over two hundred thousand people with that trigger pull.
Even when the Soviet Union acquired its nuclear weapons, Dictator Joseph Stalin didn’t wield such power as Truman had done against Japan. In today’s era, no single person may launch a nuclear weapon. Yes, our presidents are in authority over our military, however, there are steps in place to make a nuclear strike. There is no big red button that President Trump has access to, nor any other president for that matter. If all of the United States command structure was eliminated by an enemy in nuclear strikes, and if an Ohio class submarine captain decided to launch the nuclear missiles in the submarine, the first officer would have to give his/her consent to launch the missiles. No one person in this country may launch a nuclear strike. This is evidently true in other countries that possess nuclear weapons.
Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell. Written by Mark Pullen.