The ‘nuclear football’ - the deadly briefcase that never leaves the president’s side

In a speech in San Diego recently, Hillary Clinton asked: “Do we want his [Donald Trump’s] finger anywhere near the button?” She was doubtful that her Republican rival was really the guy you wanted to unleash America’s arsenal of nuclear warheads which has thousands of times the destructive force of the weapons that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki 71 years ago this month. Certainly, her opponent’s nuclear strategy, if that’s not too strong a word, is nothing if not maverick.
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