Latest "nuclear option" stories

Let’s play Senate thermonuclear war: PODCAST

Changes in Senate confirmation votes, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie's interview with Military Times, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's address to Congress, and military conspiracy theories.

By Leo Shane III and Joe Gould

5 years ago

Trump, in State of the Union, seeks full military funding. But how?

President Donald Trump, in his first State of the Union, asked Congress to “fully fund” the U.S. military, but he will have to navigate the Capitol Hill cross-currents that bedeviled the last administration.

By Joe Gould

6 years ago