A military aide, left, carries the "president's emergency satchel," also known as the "nuclear football." (Gerald Herbert/AP)
Military Times: Pentagon inspector general exploring how to better secure the ‘nuclear football’
As they moved to escape the Capitol on Jan. 6, protestors who had violently broken down the doors and through the windows of the building came within yards of then-Vice President Mike Pence and his team, and thus a briefcase containing the procedures to launch a nuclear strike in the event of the president’s incapacitation.
On Monday, the Defense Department inspector general’s office announced a project that will evaluate the procedures in place should a “nuclear football,” which travel at all times with both the president and vice president, be lost or compromised, according to a release.
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