I have often wondered where the Presidents got the notion that they could ignore the Constitution’s directive of War Powers, specifically that only Congress could declare war. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 is the source. So read on and see when our republic died.
I came across this bit of information via the video below. It is a conversation with Garry Wills on his new book, Bomb Power.
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