Nuclear button

The actual procedure for using such weapons is more complex than simply pushing a button.

[2] The "nuclear button" may be transferred to another official due to political changes or the incapacitation of a person currently in control of it.

[citation needed] On January 1, 2018, Kim Jong Un announced during his New Year speech "the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office" in order to make the United States aware that he is able to attack the country at will.

In his 2019 book Team of Vipers, Cliff Sims writes that Trump jokingly referred to it as a nuclear button in front of visitors: “Not sure what to do, guests would look at one another with raised eyebrows.

Moments later, a steward would enter the room carrying a glass filled with Diet Coke on a silver platter, and Trump would burst out laughing.”[6]