Having the nuclear football in plain sight and raindead Biden in charge is SCARY.
I doubt that Joe Biden's political handlers ever let him have the "football" or the code cards needed to use it.
They are evil and crazed sociopaths. They are not stupid. They know what kind of senile figurehead they placed in the office of the President and they are not about to let him have any real control over anything.
The scary part will come when Joe Biden must be replaced, and the factional infighting gets really nasty. Somebody we have never heard of will have the football. Somebody else will have the code cards. Somebody else will see an advantage in collecting the set.
I hope the duty officers carry sidearms.