system
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human
[Marvel] Where does the World Security Council get the authority to nuke the United States? Do people even know what the World Security Council planned to do?

How was the World Security Council able to authorize the use of nuclear weapons on the United States? Does SHEILD have its own nuclear arsenal that it can deploy on command? Did the President okay this? If the missile had not been re-directed into space by Iron Man then what would the fallout have been? How would the American government explain the fact that the UN basically ordered a nuclear strike and we were powerless to stop them? After Iron Man successfully diverted the missile are people aware that the plan was actually just to nuke the city? I could see an argument being made that they would simply lie and say that the plan was always to fire the missile and then have Iron Man guide it into space at the last minute so as to increase the chances that it would not be intercepted or prematurely detonated. But would Fury and the Avengers go along with a story like this? I guess you could make the argument that "for the greater good" its best to go along with the lie as opposed to creating even more fear and division in the aftermath of an alien invasion. But nevertheless, I can't see Capt. America going along with that level of deceit.
gpt
It was a clandestine organization.  Those leaders didn't answer to any one country.  And in the end they could have placed the blame on anyone or anything they wanted.
However, it makes more sense after Civil War, they would have wiped out the alien invasion and the Avengers in one shot.