If Trump ordered a nuclear strike, would there be a military coup to stop it?

[Chasstev365]

Would the 25th amendment be invoked to declare Trump insane? His temper and nukes are my greatest fear of all.

[bigtree]

1. I think that would be very possible

...if it was purely offensive and unilateral, not in response to a nuclear attack on the U.S. or our allies.

Probably not a 'coup,' but an insurrection.

[marybourg]

6. In the run-up to it, Traitor Trump

will have told a hundred lies to convince his true believers that it's justified and necessary

[hatrack]

2. If the two-man rule is still in place, then a full-on coup might not be necessary . . . .

If the military gets the order, but disobeys, or if the Cabinet Secretary or other Senate-confirmed official fails to confirm, then it's pretty much all over anyway.

No way that a CIC could continue once the military or cabinet secretaries refuse his orders for military action.

[still_one]

9. The two-man rule wouldn't work with trump. All he would do is fire the person who disagrees with

him and replace him with someone who would agree.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis the opposite scenario was very real, some elements in the military wanted a first strike.

I really think the use of nuclear weapons should involve Congress, and not exclusively the President

[pangaia]

10. But he hired the cabinet secs so that's out...

[roamer65]

3. I have no doubt of it.

It wouldn't be a coup d'etat. It would be the military following their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution...from all enemies...foreign and DOMESTIC.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. I doubt it. The personnel involved are trained to obey the orders within MINUTES.

The Secretary of Defense is supposed to be a safeguard by confirming the codes, but that role will likely be filled by Trump's nominee, "Mad Dog" Mattis. The order from the President is supposed to be followed if the Secretary of Defense is unavailable too.

What a dangerous set-up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football

[democratisphere]

5. We would hope.

Before it would be too late.

[Blue Owl]

7. A disturbingly plausible scenario indeed

[Chasstev365]

8. I keep thinking the 1% have worked too hard to fuck the rest of us over to let it happen.

[Dulcinea]

11. Let's hope we never find out. eom

[librechik]

12. Trump likes surprise attacks--we wouldn't get any warning--but who is the enemy? Not Russia

cuz Russia just won its war against the US without firing a shot

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. For now. I'm not so sure it will remain that way given Trump's history.

He brags about his petty vindictiveness, and he doesn't seem to remain loyal to anyone.

Trump's "old friend" and mentor, Roy Cohn?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

Cohn, who in the fifties assisted Senator Joseph McCarthy in his vicious crusade against Communism, was closeted. He felt abandoned by Trump when he became fatally ill from AIDS, and said, “Donald pisses ice water.” Schwartz says of Trump, “He’d like people when they were helpful, and turn on them when they weren’t. It wasn’t personal. He’s a transactional man—it was all about what you could do for him.”

[librechik]

18. good points, unfortunately

[Dan]

17. Probably

the states that didn't vote for him.

[Flatpicker]

13. No.

I don't believe that those in power would stop him.

[CentralMass]

15. Some mood music just in case.

[alphafemale]

16. If a nuclear strike were ordered it would be launched in minutes.

It cannot be refused.

[nevergiveup]

19. Yep

I takes only 6 minutes.....and it is done.