Business meeting will come to order. Do just a little bit of business on the front end and hopefully take care of some business quickly. Now people have other meetings and then move to the hearing itself. We thank our witnesses for allowing us to do this, and were glad youre here. We have a number of items on the agenda today. Well move a number of nominations and Foreign Service officer lists. We will also take up s1928. The multilateral if a review act of 2017. Want to thank senator koonce force his leadership and hard work and recognize senators isakson, rubio, young, cane, and merkley for their contributions to this important Bipartisan Legislation before our committee. This bill would establish a process for conducting objective reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. The authorities sunset after four review periods and 11 years. Through this process well be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. The review will loo
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What would be the case, though, is that it wouldnt be the president alone persuading a single military officer alone on the other side of the telephone. There would be a large group of advisers and Legal Advisers weighing in on this, and thats an important part of the context that is sometimes lost in the media coverage. There would be a lot of people under the scenario that youve described not imminent, not waking the president up, but we have time to decide this. Many, many people would be weighing in, including many lawyers. I think this was answered to some extent, but ill ask you, dr. Feaver, would the possession of a Nuclear Weapon capable of reaching the United States constitute an imminent attack, in your opinion . The simple possession of a Nuclear Weapon capable of hitting the United States, does that constitute an imminent attack . Im not a lawyer, and so i could not judge whether that would meet the legal test. I think it would, in most peoples minds, constitute a grave thr
The hearing will come to order. A number of members on both sides of the aisle have raised questions about the executive authorities with respect to warmaking and the use of Nuclear Weapons, entering into an agreement with other countries. This is the first time the Foreign Relations committee of the senate or house has met on this topic since 1976. Warng the decision to go to is a heavy responsibility for our nations elected leaders. The Atomic Energy act of 1946 and the practices represent the use of Nuclear Weapons must be subject to political control. This is why no general or admiral has the authority to order the use of Nuclear Weapons, only the president , the elected political leader of the United States has this authority. The Nuclear Arms Race between ussrnited states and the dramatically increase the risk of Nuclear Conflict. We plan for the end thinkable him how to get missiles in the air without within those few coulds before warheads destroy our ability to respond. There