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Had Petrov received the same noncivilian training as his comrades in arms, he may have simply reacted to the order, initiating the nuclear holocaust.

He would be the first noncivilian to head the department since it was created in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The issue of whether to allow a noncivilian to take charge of the U.S. military promises to be one of the first big votes facing the new Congress.

“A non-U.S. citizen who committed a crime outside of the United States in what can only be defined as an act of terror tantamount more to a war than a criminal-code violation puts me in the camp of arguing for a noncivilian court trial,” said Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina.

The sharing of cyberthreat data is controversial because of concerns that doing so with noncivilian government agencies would risk a violation of privacy rights.