DailyKenn.com — Dementia and other neurological impairments often accompany old age. Elderly men in high places are no exceptions, including Joe Biden.
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Given Biden's questionable capacity for rational judgement, even Democrats are fretting over this sole authority to launch nuclear weapons on a whim.
Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war.
“...Vesting one person with this authority entails real risks,” states the letter spearheaded by Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California. “Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president’s judgment.“