Trump can get around safeguards and order a nuclear attack

There was a lot of news coverage about words spoken by the top US nuclear commander at the Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday.
Gen. John Hyten, commander of US Strategic Command which oversees America’s nuclear weapons, said he would not follow an “illegal order from the president if he was ordered to launch a nuclear attack.
“I provide advice to the President,” Hyten said. “He’ll tell me what to do, and if it’s illegal, guess what’s