Budget & Policy

Lawmakers Mull Changes in Presidential Nuke Launch Authority

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A day after an influential Senate committee mulled whether to change the president’s unilateral authority to launch a nuclear strike, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee introduced a bill to ban the U.S. from launching a nuclear first strike.
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