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PRESIDENT'S BRIEF CASE AND THE ATOM BOMB

     


      US president's aide always carries a bridf case using which he can annihilate the world at any moment.  Yes, it is a black leather suitcase weighing 45 pounds and it is always within the reach of the US president.  It is nicknamed "nuclear foot ball".
     On the day, the US president sworn in, he receives the world's most powerful ciphers(encrypted text) called the gold codes, they are printed on a plastic card similar to a credit card that is known as the BISCUIT.  They allow the president to identify him or herself as the authorized user of the foot ball.  President's carry the biscuit on their person day and night.    The nuclear football is carried by one of a series of rotating military aides who are always with the president, travelling in the same vehicle, taking the same elevator, and staying on the same floor of a hotel.  These aides have undergone extensive psychological testing.
     The foot ball is a communications device for contacting the joint chief of staff and the national military command center.  In the event of nuclear war, the president would decide the target and dimensions of the attack.  Also, the vice president has a duplicate of the Nuclear foot ball.
    Triggering a nuclear holocaust is as easy as tweeting, only if a president wishes.  OK what is Nuclear bomb?  Einstein said matter(mass) and energy is one and the same.  Both can be inter-converted according to the famous formula E= mc^2.  When a big atom like Uranium is broken (fission) by bombarding neutrons, some mass is lost which converted into energy.  In a fission process, a few more neutrons are also released.  These neutrons cause further fission and the chain reaction continues uncontrollably resulting in the explosion.  During the explosion, tons of energy is released in the shape of heat, light, radiation causing very high temperature and pressure.  In such an environment, no life can survive.
    Today, many countries have missiles carrying nuclear war heads.  They are mainly used as 'deterrent' and not in the actual war.
     Hiroshima and Nagasaki is enough for the mankind.  Now, Nuclear energy is used for the peace purpose.  When chain reaction is controlled, Nuclear bomb becomes Nuclear reactor in which, we can safely extract electrical energy.
     We strongly hopes and wishes that US president never gets the opportunity to use the "foot ball" and the "biscuit".    
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