Trump et l'arme nucléaire: personne ne peut le freiner

Généralement on parle peu de cette question parce qu'on croit que les Américains ont choisi quelqu'un de raisonnable qui sera bien entouré. Mais ne nous y trompons pas, le Président a le dernier en ce qui concerne l'utilisation de l'arme nucléaire. Historiquement on craignait plus un militaire déjanté qu'un politicien irresponsable.

 "When the legal framework for nuclear weapons was developed, the fear wasn’t about irrational presidents but trigger-happy generals. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which was passed with President Harry Truman’s signature after nine months of acrimonious congressional hearings, firmly put the power of the atomic bomb in the hands of the president and the civilian components of the executive branch. It was a momentous and controversial law, crafted in the months following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with an eye toward future standoffs with the Soviet Union.

The members of Congress who wrote the law, largely with the backing of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, framed it explicitly as a question of who controls the power to use nuclear weapons: Is dropping an atomic bomb a military act or a political one? If it is inherently political, above and beyond a regular military tactic, then that power could not be entrusted to the military. Ultimately, the president was supposed to be the check against the Pentagon pushing to use nukes more often."

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/01/no-one-can-stop-president-trump-from-using-nuclear-weapons-thats-by-design/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.b00014aae986