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[[File:Pee-Wee's Big Launch.jpg|thumb|Earliest known poster for '''''Pee-Wee's Big Launch'''''.]]
'''''Pee-Wee's Big Launch''''' is a 1985 American military training film directed by Tim Burton and intended for use by an illiterate President. The film describes the Gold Code — the launch code for nuclear weapons provided to the President of the United States in their role as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. 

In conjunction with the nuclear football, the Gold Codes allow the president to authorize a nuclear attack.

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File:Mister Rogers' Op-Center.jpg|link=Mister Rogers' Op-Center|'''''[[Mister Rogers' Op-Center]]''''' is an American half-hour children's national security television series created and hosted by an anonymous Fred Rogers impersonator reporting from an undisclosed location.

File:Robert Oppenheimer and the Temple of Doom.jpg|link=Robert Oppenheimer and the Temple of Doom|'''''[[Robert Oppenheimer and the Temple of Doom]]''''' is a historical drama action-adventure film directed by Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg, and starring Cillian Murphy as physicist-adventurer Robert Oppenheimer.

File:Playskool's My First Nuclear Football.jpg|link=Playskool's My First Nuclear Football|'''[[Playskool's My First Nuclear Football]]''' an Executive toy briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed playgrounds, such as the White House Cardboard Box Fortress.

File:Kindergarten Terminator.jpg|link=Kindergarten Terminator|'''''[[Kindergarten Terminator]]''''' is an American action comedy science fiction thriller film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* ''[[Kindergarten Terminator]]''
* ''[[Mister Rogers' Op-Center]]''
* [[Playskool's My First Nuclear Football]]
* ''[[Robert Oppenheimer and the Temple of Doom]]''

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* [[:Category:Films]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)]]

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* [[:Category:Tim Burton (nonfiction)]]
* [[:Category:Nuclear war (nonfiction)]]
* [[:Category:Nuclear weapons (nonfiction)]]

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=== Social media ===

* [https://x.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1874680659178135686 Post] @ Twitter (1 January 2025)

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