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114: 22: 162:, Cliff Sims writes that Trump jokingly referred to it as a nuclear button in front of visitors: “Not sure what to do, guests would look at one another with raised eyebrows. Moments later, a steward would enter the room carrying a glass filled with Diet Coke on a silver platter, and Trump would burst out laughing.” 43:. "Pushing the nuclear button" refers to actually using them. The actual procedure for using such weapons is more complex than simply pushing a button. The "nuclear button" may be transferred to another official due to political changes or the incapacitation of a person currently in control of it. 128:
Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
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announced during his New Year speech "the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office" in order to make the United States aware that he is able to attack the country at will. US
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in which an officer accidentally presses the nuclear button; and
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cheget
nuclear weapons
nuclear briefcases
president of the United States
popular culture
music video
It's a Mistake
Land of Confusion
Reagan
Kim Jong Un
President Trump
Twitter
Twitter logo, a stylized blue bird
Diet Coke button
Diet Coke
Oval Office
Team of Vipers
Nuclear briefcase
Pakistan's Zardari hands nuclear button to PM
"Nuclear button chaos behind Reagan"
"Chernomyrdin to Control 'Nuclear Button' for Yeltsin's Surgery (Published 1996)"
"Kim Jong Un says the nuclear button is always on his desk"
"Trump boasts of bigger 'nuclear button' than North Korea's"
Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
ISBN
978-1-250-22390-6
Categories
Nuclear command and control
Nuclear war and weapons in popular culture

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