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Jorge Hirsch is a Professor of Physics at the University of California at San Diego, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and organizer of a recent petition, circulated among leading physicists, opposing the new nuclear weapons policies adopted by the US in the past 5 years. He is a frequent commentator on Iran and nuclear weapons.
SHARE Thursday, February 15, 2007 Congress' nuclear liability
Congress funds the development and deployment of nuclear weapons but leaves the decision on when and how to use them entirely up to the President. Congressmembers will be liable for the crimes committed with those weapons.