This article is about portable devices used to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons. For miniature atomic bombs, see Suitcase nuclear device.
A nuclear briefcase is a specially outfitted briefcase used to authorize the use of nuclear weapons and is usually kept near the leader of a nuclear weapons state at all times.
A nuclearbriefcase is a specially outfitted briefcase used to authorize the use of nuclear weapons and is usually kept near the leader of a nuclear weapons...
briefcase is a narrow hard-sided box-shaped bag or case used mainly for carrying papers and equipped with a handle. Lawyers commonly use briefcases to...
football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the president of the United States to communicate and authorize a nuclear attack while...
Cheget (Russian: Чегет) is a "nuclearbriefcase" (named after Mount Cheget [ru] in Kabardino-Balkaria) and a part of the automatic system for the command...
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Various nuclear countries have nuclearbriefcases that accompany the leader (such as the president of the United States), allowing them to launch nuclear missiles...
a high-altitude nuclear attack that could blind Russian radar, Russian nuclear forces went on high alert, and the "nuclearbriefcase" (the Cheget) was...
coded orders to nuclear-capable forces. The President can give a nuclear launch order using their nuclearbriefcase (nicknamed the nuclear football), or...
Boris Yeltsin became the first world leader to activate the Russian nuclearbriefcase after Russian radar systems detected the launch of what was later...
or briefcase. The W48 however, does fit the criteria of small, easily disguised, and portable. Its explosive yield was extremely small for a nuclear weapon...
Yeltsin activating his nuclearbriefcase for the first time. In the fifties and sixties, three more countries joined the "nuclear club." The United Kingdom...
Union, which possesses the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, collapses. Gorbachev hands over the nuclearbriefcase, the Cheget, to the new Russian President...
response, Russian President Boris Yeltsin was summoned and the Cheget nuclearbriefcase was activated for the first and only time. However, the high command...
former President presented the new President with a "nuclearbriefcase". After receiving "nuclearbriefcase", Putin and Medvedev went to the Cathedral Square...
timeline is a former CIA man turned mercenary) to get back a stolen nuclearbriefcase. Stryfe is later killed by Deadpool. Stryfe makes a non-speaking cameo...
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8:00 am, the Soviet General Staff ordered that the Cheget briefcase controlling Soviet nuclear weapons be returned to Moscow. Although Gorbachev discovered...
president decides to launch nuclear weapons, he or she would be taken aside by the carrier of the nuclear football and the briefcase would be opened. The president...
is a prototype network for detecting a ground-based nuclear device such as a nuclear "briefcase bomb." WATS is being developed at the Lawrence Livermore...
and water. Famously, the nuclear football, the briefcase which the President of the United States can use to order a nuclear strike, is a modified Zero...
necessary, a message can be sent to the presidential 'nuclearbriefcase' for authorisation to use nuclear weapons. There is a communications centre which has...
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to Yeltsin, who was notified and the "nuclearbriefcase" (known in Russia as Cheget) used to authorize nuclear launch was automatically activated. Russian...