Among the tidbits Burr unearthed: The football once contained presidential decrees that some in the U.S. William Burr, a senior analyst at the nonprofit National Security Archive at George Washington University, published a report Tuesday detailing his recent research into the presidential pigskin. The heavy case is carried by a military officer who is never far behind the president, whether the commander-in-chief is boarding a helicopter or exiting meetings with world leaders.īeyond those basic facts, however, not much is known about the satchel, which has come to symbolize the massive power of the presidency. Officially called the " Presidential Emergency Satchel, " the "nuclear football" is a bulky briefcase that contains atomic war plans and enables the president to transmit nuclear orders to the Pentagon.
The most important - and mysterious - "football" in the world isn't really a football at all.
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