US President Donald Trump was keen to take the most dangerous bag (‘Nuclear Football’ Briefcase) in the world to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Hospital in Maryland, where he is being treated for the corona virus.
According to Daily mail report, Trump’s aides transported the bag, known as “the nuclear football”, to the helicopter that transported the American president from the White House to the Walter Reed hospital.
There are three nuclear bags distributed between the president and his vice president, while the last copy is kept in the White House, for launch orders nuclear weapons anytime.
The Daily Mail's reported that the bag holders are armed with “Beretta” pistols, and they have orders to shoot anyone who tries to take it.
The bag contains a 75-page booklet containing information informing the President of the options in his hands regarding directing nuclear strikes, as well as sites maps with fortified hideouts in the event of a devastating war, according to Reuters.
On other hand, The portfolio name came from the nuclear war plan in the Eisenhower era, which was based on the threat to use nuclear weapons to end the Korean War, and to give “nuclear deterrence” priority while reducing the financing of conventional military forces.
The nuclear portfolio has accompanied all the presidents of the United States while leaving the White House since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, after John F. Kennedy felt threatened by the small Caribbean nation.
Noteworthy, News of Trump’s infection with COVID-19 on Friday, drew instant reactions of shock, sympathy, and curiosity surrounding everything about the issue. On October 3, Trump tweeted from Walter Reed hospital that his treatment was going well.
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