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President Reagan and Nancy Reagan in 1987—the military aide at right-center is carrying the nuclear football. The nuclear football, officially the Presidential Emergency Satchel, is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the president of the United States to communicate and authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room ...
Everywhere the U.S. president goes there's an aide with a briefcase that can start a nuclear war that could destroy most of the earth. What's Inside the President's Nuclear Football Skip to main ...
The president is always accompanied by a military aide carrying the nuclear football with launch codes for nuclear weapons. [12] It has been described both as a metal Zero Halliburton briefcase [13] and as a leather briefcase weighing about 45 pounds (20 kg), with photographic evidence existing of the latter. [11]
The so-called nuclear 'Football' is a black leather briefcase that contains items capable of allowing the US president to authorize a nuclear attack.
The Gold Code is the launch code for nuclear weapons provided to the President of the United States in their role as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. [1] In conjunction with the nuclear football, the Gold Codes allow the president to authorize a nuclear attack. [2]
Known as the "nuclear football," every president since Eisenhower has been accompanied by the briefcase at all times. The safe also held military communication center codes.
Famously, the nuclear football, the briefcase which the President of the United States can use to order a nuclear strike, is a modified Zero Halliburton case, [1] although enclosed in a black leather 'jacket' to make it less conspicuous in public or diplomatic contexts.
Coolidge attended one college football games as president: Nov. 27, 1926: Army vs. Navy at Soldier Field, Chicago. Woodrow Wilson, 28th president (1913-21) Wilson attended one college football game: