15.11.2017 - 11:32 [ Common Dreams ]

Fearing Trump, Congress Holds First Hearing in Decades on President‘s Nuclear Authority

Despite Sen. Bob Corker‘s (R-Tenn.) insistence that the congressional hearing on Tuesday about the authority to use nuclear weapons „is not specific to anybody,“ it is the first hearing on this topic in decades, and comes at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have made a sport out of taunting North Korea‘s leader as his nation advances its nuclear abilities.