Word: nuclearism
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...things standing in their way. The logistics of actually effecting a rule change are daunting. Changing Senate rules usually requires 67 votes, all but impossible to come by in the current Washington climate. The only way around this is the constitutional option, also known as the “nuclear option,” which technically only requires 51 senators to vote to alter the filibuster rules. Republicans threatened to go nuclear in 2005 in response to Democratic filibusters of a few of President Bush’s judicial nominees. For technical reasons, however, the constitutional option can?...
...election results are non-disastrous to the point of showing the tide turning in the Democrats’ direction, but (as is inevitable) the election still reduces their already inadequate majority, then they could try to strike a deal with Republicans to change the rules, using the nuclear option as leverage...
...handful of senior Army brass following the revelations of poor conditions for wounded troops at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army's flagship hospital. Then, in 2008, he canned the Air Force's top two leaders - one civilian and one military - over their sloppy handling of nuclear missiles and other atomic gear. (See a TIME photo-essay on Robert Gates' public career...
...most certain route to bringing the world down on its head would be for the IRGC to keep building centrifuges and enriching uranium. If nothing else, the hostility of the West that would follow would distract the Iranian opposition. And while an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could perhaps set back the program by five years, it's a small price to pay in order to convince the people on the street that Iran is under an existential threat. One thing that would happen is that opposition demonstrations would come to a quick...
Watch 10 questions with Mohamed ElBaradei, the world's top nuclear watchdog...