have your finger on the button

have your finger on the button
have a/(your) finger on the button to be the person who controls the nuclear weapons (= weapons that use power made by dividing atoms) that a country has and decides whether to fire them.

If Europe has its own nuclear deterrent, whose finger would be on the button?


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