The United States Is Living Under a ‘Nuclear Monarchy’ | The New York Times

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Should one person have that much power?

By W.J. Hennigan
Produced by Jillian Weinberger

In America, it’s the president who decides whether the country goes to nuclear war. In this audio essay, W.J. Hennigan argues against the United States’ sole decision-making authority on nuclear weapons. The country’s nuclear power structure, he says, is “too much power for one person to have, to decide whether or not the world as we know it will exist.”

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