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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] Gold Codes, as well as a separate nuclear football, are also assigned to ...
Nuclear disarmament in international law. The United States is one of the five nuclear weapons states with a declared nuclear arsenal under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), of which it was an original drafter and signatory on 1 July 1968 (ratified 5 March 1970). All signatories of the NPT agreed to refrain from ...
BF Arsenal do Exercito ("Army Arsenal") – Lisbon, Portugal. A cover headstamp used by the Portuguese government on ammunition sent to Angola, Rhodesia, and South Africa during the Border War. The code was created from the headstamp AE by moving one letter to the right in the alphabet. The headstamp code faces the rim, with the letter code at ...
President Reagan and Nancy Reagan in 1987—the military aide at right-center is carrying the nuclear football. The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, [1] the satchel, the button, the Black Bag, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the president of the United States to communicate and ...
Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States, Russia (the successor of the former Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and China. Of these, the three NATO members, the United ...
72001153 [1] 100001935 (decrease) Significant dates. Added to NRHP. March 16, 1972. Boundary decrease. December 28, 2017. The Frankford Arsenal is a former United States Army ammunition plant located adjacent to the Bridesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, north of the original course of Frankford Creek.
Faslane Naval Base, home of the Vanguard-class submarines which carry the UK's nuclear arsenal. With the tactical nuclear weapons having been withdrawn from service, Trident was the UK's only remaining nuclear weapons system. [288] By this time, possession of nuclear weapons had become an important part of Britain's national identity.
The Arsenal Football Club, commonly known as simply Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Holloway, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. In domestic football, Arsenal have won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community ...