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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: oldcoastie6468 on December 04, 2013, 10:59:04 AM
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Dial 00000000 for Armageddon. US’s top secret launch nuclear launch code was frighteningly simple
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 10:31 EST, 29 November 2013 | UPDATED: 21:59 EST, 29 November 2013
For nearly 20 years, the secret code to authorize launching U.S. nuclear missiles, and starting World War III, was terrifyingly simple and even noted down on a checklist.
From 1962, when John F Kennedy instituted PAL encoding on nuclear weapons, until 1977, the combination to fire the devastating missiles at the height of the Cold War was just 00000000.
This was chosen by Strategic Air Command in an effort to make the weapons as quick and as easy to launch as possible, as reported by Today I Found Out.
The Permissive Action Link (PAL) is a security device for nuclear weapons that it is supposed to prevent unauthorized arming or detonation of the nuclear weapon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515598/Launch-code-US-nuclear-weapons-easy-00000000.html#ixzz2mWgDCdMT (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515598/Launch-code-US-nuclear-weapons-easy-00000000.html#ixzz2mWgDCdMT)
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Reminds me of the scene in Spaceballs when Dick VanPatten reveals the code to unlock the planets supply of air.
"1,2,3,4,5!?!? That sounds like something an idiot would have on his luggage!"
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Reminds me of the scene in Spaceballs when Dick VanPatten reveals the code to unlock the planets supply of air.
"1,2,3,4,5!?!? That sounds like something an idiot would have on his luggage!"
Well, considering some of the people who had to know that code........ ::)
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Zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero.
::facepalm::
No imagination...
Goobermint...
::mooning::