BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Donald ... nuclear button in a now infamous tweet aimed at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but no such button exists. Unlike the big red button depicted ...

Whatever you do, don’t press that button. It’s a trope that’s spanned pop culture for generations—and the real world, too. But where did this Big Red Button come from? And why does sick ...

The US nuclear briefcase, however, doesn't really have a big red button... The image of a president unleashing Armageddon with a press of a button is well established in modern culture ...