![]() ![]() Presidents, is required to carry the biscuit at all times. The biscuit is a plastic card on which a number of codes are written, which are used to verify the identity of the President were he to call an attack. In the absence of a button, the President is armed with a ‘nuclear biscuit’ and a ‘nuclear football’. Instead, a system more complex than a single push of the thumb is required to unleash America’s nuclear cache – now 1,000 times the size of the arsenal that destroyed Hiroshimi and Nagasaki. If Trump’s statement is taken at face value than it is untrue for one simple reason: there is no nuclear button. It followed the North Korean’s dictator’s assertion that his country’s nuclear arsenal was ‘complete’ and that his nuclear button was always within reach.īut what exactly is the truth within the POTUS’s latest declaration? The big red button? The tweet was the latest shot in a ping-pong match of nuclear threats between the two world leaders, and one that saw Trump branded a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘madman’ by U.S. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. ![]()
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