Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Posted: 5th February 2025

Current US policy allows the US president to be the sole arbiter of whether or not to launch a first strike of nuclear weapons. That’s got to change in a hurry urge Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Ted Lieu.

President Trump may be talking about denuclearizing alongside Russia and China but he still has sole authority to launch nuclear weapons without the permission of - or even needing to inform - Congress. Senator Markey and Rep. Lieu are urgently reintroducing theirThe Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act to take that unilateral power away, describing current US nuclear launch policy as “terrifying, dangerous and unconstitutional”. READ MORE

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