Much like a restaurant menu, the President could decide to order the elimination of a single place posing a threat to the United States or supersize the level of attack if necessary in the event of a national security risk. However, there is a menu of nuclear war plans.
You probably think that inside the commander in chief’s top-secret Nuclear Football, there’s a red button allowing him to launch a nuclear attack.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, a code name given to a secret nuclear-war plan. The nickname Nuclear Football also comes from the word “dropkick,” per the former U.S. Possibly proving that football-not baseball- is America’s true pastime, this nuclear response satchel is called the Nuclear Football because of its portability and because it is carried by hand along with, we imagine, with the fiercest stiff-arm imaginable should someone try to tackle this particular ball carrier. Wrapped in black leather instead of brown pigskin, and framed in rigid aluminum, this satchel contains all the equipment necessary to allow him, “to communicate with the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon,” the organization constantly monitoring nuclear threats, and to order a nuclear attack, according to Reader’s Digest. Officially known as the “president’s emergency satchel,” per Smithsonian Magazine, the President’s Nuclear Football isn’t actually a football at all. Inside is a black book of strike options for him to choose from, once he has authenticated his identity using a plastic card nicknamed ‘the biscuit’.Įven as he is in hospital, Trump still has had sole authority to order the launch of the United States' 1,365 nuclear weapons and bring about the deaths of millions of people, The Sun reported. The 45lb briefcase was handed to Trump when he took office and it never leaves the president's side. DONALD Trump's 'nuclear football' briefcase, containing the launch codes for America’s nuclear arsenal, remains at the president's side as he battles coronavirus in hospital, according to US Media.
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