单词 | nuclear football |
释义 | > as lemmasnuclear football 6. Originally and chiefly U.S. A briefcase containing authentication codes and other items that allow the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear strike at any time. Also more fully nuclear football.The briefcase is kept close to the president, carried by a military aide. Now also occasionally used with reference to other world leaders with nuclear capabilities. ΚΠ 1965 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 27 July 4/4 The ‘black bag’ or ‘football’, as we call it, goes wherever the President travels. 1977 Newsweek (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 31 Jan. (National Affairs section) 29 Two men never far from Ford's side when he traveled: his personal physician and a military aide with the ‘football’, the bagful of top-secret codes for launching nuclear weapons. 1981 Times 6 Apr. 4/4 (headline) Business proceeds as normal after big scare over America's nuclear football. 1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 June (Late ed.) i. 1 Mr. Gorbachev had a bodyguard with him on the helicopter as well who was presumably in charge of the Soviet ‘football’. 2011 D. Q. Wilber Rawhide Down xii. 155 Reagan's military aide had the president's football at the hospital, and the FBI had recovered Reagan's nuclear code card. < as lemmas |
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