The Secret of a Nuclear Weapons Button

There really is no nuclear button.

Each nuclear weapon country has its own system for launching a nuclear attack. However, all depends on the government leader - his confirmation of his identity before authorizing such an attack.

In the United States, authorising a nuclear attack is a secret and complex process. It includes using a so-called “stop football<x1 nuclear>.

It's about a 23-kilogram bag held in rotation by a group of officers who escort the President wherever he goes. The bag contains communication devices and a manual that includes war plans. The manual has a list of objects that can be targeted by all 900 nuclear weapons owned by the American Army.

If President Trump gives the order for a nuclear attack, he must first identify himself by means of certain codes recorded on a card, called “biscotes” and that the president keeps with him at all times.

The president conveys the order to the Pentagon, which is near Washington and the Strategic Command in the state of Nebraska.

To authorize a nuclear attack, the president requires no one else's approval, no congress or armed forces.

The war of words about nuclear buttons began on Monday, when Kim Jung Un said in a speech: “is not just a threat, but the reality that I have a nuclear button at my body office table”. He added, “the entire continental American territory is within the range of our nuclear attack. ”

North Korea is an isolated country whose nuclear program has been developed in secret, and many international experts doubt that there is a button on Kim's table.

Although nuclear buttons are images in people's imagination, Trump responded to Korean leader Twitter that he too has a button on the table but much bigger and more powerful than the rival.