The president carries around a piece of laminated paper that he could lose at any moment. Carter was rumored to have lost the biscuit in his dry cleaning. Clinton just lost it for months and told nobody. This is like human folly at its best.
Today we launch our show, but it turns out it's a lot easier to launch a nuclear weapon. Vox's Alex Ward walks us through the six easy steps and tells Sean Rameswaram about the time we accidentally dropped a nuke on North Carolina. Twice.