Does it bother anybody else that a declining POTUS is also responsible to decide whether to use the “football”?
“football”
The military officer that carries around the “football” has to punch in appropriate codes.
These codes would include two PINs (one for Joe and one for the suitcase guy) and from a book, missile activation codes and warhead destination codes.
At the missile bases, launch officers would have to do something like turn keys. They are probably told to call a Pentagon number, to listen to broadcasts and to try to use websites. I suspect no missile would fly unless a major city went ‘dark’. The launch officers would also have access to NORAD information.
IMO-THAT decision was covered MONTHS AGO——JOE is nowhere near the football.
DO NOT KNOW WHO IS...BUT IT AIN’T JOE.