In Reply to: When he pushes the button he'll get a diet coke. His idiot posted by azbruin on October 30, 2026 at 11:07:45
Admittedly what I "know" is from google and movies but in theory POTUS needs the nuclear football to get the codes that he has to use to authorize a strike. Once he has done so and it's verified, military personnel are REQUIRED to carry it out.
So my hope is the guy with the nuclear football wouldn't give it to him if he wanted it to just nuke Iran, because I'm not relying on a bunch of kids under incredible stress and pressure at least one of them is going to launch from their sub, plane etc if they get that order.
I really at this point don't know what if any safeguards are still in place. I'd love to believe "they" won't let him nuke Iran but if that were true why did they let him attack Iran in the first place?