Briefcase used by the President
of the United States to authorize
a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers.
There are four things in the Football. The Black Book containing the retaliatory options,
a book listing classified site locations,
a manila folder with eight
or ten pages stapled together giving a description of procedures for the Emergency Alert System,
and a three-by-five-inch card with authentication codes.
The Black Book was about 9 by 12 inches
and had 75 loose-leaf pages printed in black and red.
The book with classified site locations
was about the same size as the Black Book, and was black.
It contained information on sites around the
country where the president could be taken in an emergency.
Godspeed