Congress can prevent the use of nuclear weapons by refusing to fund their production. They might very well be able to prevent torture by making it a military c

Congress can prevent the use of nuclear weapons by refusing to fund their production. They might very well be able to prevent torture by making it a military crime. There's obviously a spectrum here, as Congress almost certainly couldn't make it a crime to take a particular village as an end run around the President's authority as Commander in Chief. This is not a logic puzzle, it's checks and balances.