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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 ...
Burr, who has spent three decades researching and writing about nuclear war planning and history, sat down with The Associated Press recently to talk about his research and the nuclear football's ...
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.
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]
In the film, the "nuclear football" briefcase contains a high-tech laptop computer, which can only be operated through a two key system (one key operated by the president and the other by the agent on "football duty") along with thumbprint and eye retina scans from the President.
One of two “nuclear footballs” was rushed through halls of the US Capitol this morning ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration, where the nuclear codes will be passed to a military aide of the ...
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.