Delicate dance: handing off the US ‘nuclear football’
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When an outgoing president hands the keys to the White House to the incoming one, another discrete handover takes place: the systems and codes for the US leader to launch a nuclear strike. On Wednesday Donald Trump’s huffy refusal to attend successor Joe Biden’s inauguration created an unprecedented challenge. Trump travelled to Florida three hours […]https://www.defencetalk.com/delicate-dance-handing-off-the-us-nuclear-football-76677/
When an outgoing president hands the keys to the White House to the incoming one, another discrete handover takes place: the systems and codes for the US leader to launch a nuclear strike. On Wednesday Donald Trump’s huffy refusal to attend successor Joe Biden’s inauguration created an unprecedented challenge. Trump travelled to Florida three hours […]https://www.defencetalk.com/delicate-dance-handing-off-the-us-nuclear-football-76677/