Let's Take U.S. Nukes Off Hair-Trigger Alert Before We Blow Up the Planet
Category: POLITICS
President Obama would make the world a much safer place if he took U.S. land-based nuclear missiles off hair-trigger alert. He has called the policy a "dangerous relic of the Cold War," and a number of high-ranking military officers and government officials agree. So why hasn't Obama done anything about it?
By Elliott Negin, ContributorSenior Writer, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2015-04-30