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Not only that -- before the creation of Permissive Action Links in the early 1960s, few nuclear weapons had launch codes at all.
by marvin 10y ago
Not only that -- before the creation of Permissive Action Links in the early 1960s, few nuclear weapons had launch codes at all.
- arethuza 10y agoUK Trident warheads don't have PALs in the usual sense - the crews on the boats have everything they need to launch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
- davorb 10y agoThe military actually opposed PALs. They considered them to be an additional point of failure, and did everything in their power to prevent having them installed. Once you understand this, the decision to set all nuclear launch codes to 00000000 starts to make a little more sense.