And now one of the people who guards the football has tested positive. Great.
Just remembered not everyone knows what the football is. It’s the briefcase with the nuclear launch codes in it.
The football is passed between five people, one from each of the five branches of the armed forces. At least one of them is within run and tackle distance of the president at all times from what I understand. The guy who tested positive is the one from the coast guard.
roman i cannot tell if you are being serious because we live in a hell-country where this is entirely plausible
Everyone who sees this, I want you to google “nuclear football” right now.
Jesus fucking Christ
im sorry did i just read on google that the usa president is authorized to launch a fucking nuclear bomb at any moment for any reason
Yes? Before today I thought everyone knew at least this part lol. Since like the 1950s the leaders of the then USSR now Russia and the USA have had the ability to launch a nuclear strike at any time. The leader of China and the other nuclear states probably do too. I don’t think other countries have an equivalent to the football? Or if they do then I haven’t heard of it.
This is a also huge part of the reason people want to get Drumpf out of office so badly. Yes there’s the literally everything else but he’s also the one in charge of the big red button right now. Commander-in-chief of the armed forces I’ll remind you. That’s another reason why perceived temperament is really important for a lot of people when choosing the president. We don’t just have to think about this person’s policies. We have to think about whether or not we trust them with the football. The proverbial big red button. The key to ending life as we know it.
Remember that when picking presidents for the rest of your lives, everyone.
What the actual shit. I thought the big red button was just a wacky plot device in tv.
Did people actually think this was fake? MAD is still a guiding philosophy of international relations. We got dangerously close to nuclear war with North Korea in 2017 by the way I dunno if you remember that. A former Trump official said that for days he thought it was going to happen for sure and he spent a bunch of time every day for over a week praying in the national cathedral. This stuff is real.
The codes were actually lost for several months during the clinton administration. They managed to keep that under wraps until 2010
For the first 20 years the passcode to launch nuclear warheads and quite possibly end all life as we know it was, and i am not joking,
00000000
Yep, we were just eight zeros away from nuclear annihilation for 20 years.
And this was actually better than the alternative bc the Generals didnt want a code at all!
Also if youre upset about this… maybe nows not the time to tell yall that the US military is actually really bad at keeping thier nukes safe
Video Link: Top 10 Time the US Lost or Accidentally Dropped Nukes
Roger Fisher, a law professor from Harvard, made a suggestion back in 1981 during the Iranian Hostage Crisis that the government was not particularly fond of:
