{"id":28634,"date":"2023-07-19T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=28634"},"modified":"2023-07-19T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:49:09","slug":"the-presidential-nuclear-football-from-eisenhower-to-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=28634","title":{"rendered":"The Presidential Nuclear &#8220;Football&#8221; From Eisenhower to George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/11_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"111\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded \u201cFootball\u201d that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency powers were of \u201cdoubtful legality,\u201d \u201cbadly out of date,\u201d and \u201ceven illegal,\u201d according to top government officials whose views are memorialized in declassified records posted today by the National Security Archive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/briefing-book\/nuclear-vault\/2023-07-18\/presidential-nuclear-football-eisenhower-george-w-bush\">The Presidential Nuclear &#8220;Football&#8221; From Eisenhower to George W. Bush<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>bit of a long read, but very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[481,1320,57],"class_list":["post-28634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-nukes","tag-potus","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28638,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions\/28638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}