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Catmusicfan

(816 posts)
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 08:41 AM Aug 2017

Jumping the Gun? Two Words Football! Biscuit!

Football = Nuclear launch system --always in Trumps presence

Biscuit= The codes to launch those weapons. --is said to be always on the president's body


He has power to do that. and I cannot believe Trump is sane enough not to do that.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football

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Jumping the Gun? Two Words Football! Biscuit! (Original Post) Catmusicfan Aug 2017 OP
Apparently Trump locked it before loading it. C_U_L8R Aug 2017 #1
GEE! Thanks! Catmusicfan Aug 2017 #2
Not you :-). That Trumpaziod. C_U_L8R Aug 2017 #3
Sorry. woke up to this news and have been on edge. My Hubby thinksI am over reacting Catmusicfan Aug 2017 #4
I can't believe that the system is designed so that one person's say so alone can launch nukes brush Aug 2017 #5

brush

(53,767 posts)
5. I can't believe that the system is designed so that one person's say so alone can launch nukes
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 09:02 AM
Aug 2017

There has to be a fail-safe consensus somewhere in there — the joint chiefs or someone else must have to concur before launch or the world could be vulnerable to a madman's whim.


Anybody know more?

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