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Nuclear football

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The site here is the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon.  The president would need to interact with them if he used the nuclear football for an attack.

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The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the president's emergency satchel, the button, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room. It functions as a mobile hub in the strategic defense system of the United States.

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