aggressive posture is mostly theater. but there is no underlying strategy to his loose talk. and whatever he means by it, congress has been sufficiently alarmed to consider legislation that would bar the president from launching first nuclear strike without a declaration of war by congress. it wouldn t take away the president s ability to defend the country. the atomic energy act in 1946 passed when there was more concern about trigger-happy generals. he could unleash the apocalyptic force of the american nuclear arsenal by his word alone, and within minutes. your take? well, first of all, the president already back in the campaign has made some statements about nuclear weapons that are certainly not in our interest. and would exacerbate traumatically nuclear risks. and i have to say our judgment would be that the risks of a miscalculation lead to go use of