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There's a playbook that has to be consulted, and target(s) selected. Of course it's not a terribly complex process, because the assumption is that a strike would have to be ordered without much notice. And that's also why the "nuclear football" containing everything necessary is always very close by the President.

But it's still far from "literally the push of a button."



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