{"id":322938,"date":"2017-08-23T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/very-little-in-trumps-way-if-he-orders-nuclear-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:23:34","slug":"very-little-in-trumps-way-if-he-orders-nuclear-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/very-little-in-trumps-way-if-he-orders-nuclear-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very little\u2019 in Trump\u2019s way if he orders nuclear attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>It takes a \u201cfit of pique\u201d for US President Donald Trump to start a nuclear war against North Korea, says the former director of national intelligence, arguing that the country\u2019s nuclear system is designed for a \u201crapid response.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Clapper appeared on CNN on Wednesday to make the comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole system is built to ensure rapid response if necessary. So there&#8217;s very little in the way of controls over exercising a nuclear option, which is pretty damn scary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force voiced concerns about Trump\u2019s access to the nuclear codes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170823\/3ceb9936-ad96-4dd2-bbff-2c741fccfaa6.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>This undated picture released by North Korea&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 23, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (2nd L) visiting the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science at an undisclosed location.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;In a fit of pique he decides to do something about [North Korean leader] Kim Jong&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/08\/23\/532717\/Trump-may-nuke-N-Korea-Clapper\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a \u201cfit of pique\u201d for US President Donald Trump to start a nuclear war against North Korea, says the former director of national intelligence, arguing that the country\u2019s nuclear system is designed for a \u201crapid response.\u201d James Clapper appeared on CNN on Wednesday to make the comments. &#8220;The whole system is built to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}