Gen. John Hyten recently said that he would ignore any command from the President regarding firing nuclear weapons.
He had said he held responsibility for all nuclear artillery. Hyten said any command considered illegal wouldn’t be honored.
Since his remarks some Senior Military experts have spoken to straighten out the matter.
They made it clear that protocol exited in any matters relating to a nuclear strike command. Despite this protocol no one could stop the President from carrying out his wish.
There was a detailed procedure to deal with such a decision. Striking another Country shouldn’t be taken likely. Lives would be lost and there could also be retaliation.
Trump’s Options
Bruce G. Blair said “if President Trump were to decide that it’s time to put (North Korean leader) Kim Jong-un in his place once and for all, he would choose a plan that already exists. And it would be almost impossible in my view to override a decision to implement that option.”
Was Blair once a nuclear missiles launch officer and co-founder of the Global Zero group.
It is options like this that had caused Congress to revisit how that authority should be advocated.
