Inside the Secret Dinners Where Congress Figures Out How to Stop a Nuclear Apocalypse
(WorldNews Politics)

On an evening two years ago, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) walked out of a closed-door dinner on Capitol Hill without a campaign check or valuable contact, but something else: sobering new knowledge about nuclear weapons. In a recent interview, the congressman recalled the dinner, where he sat alongside Democratic and Republican lawmakers, listening to top experts explain the finer points of nuclear weapons policy and urge them to pay close attention to an issue that has fallen on Congress´ backburner. Everything was off the record-what the guests said, what they were asked, who they were, where the dinner even was. `The level of threat is constant,` said Fleischmann. `The margin for error...