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This is essentially false. There are several redundant safety and security mechanisms protecting nuclear weapons, one of which is the Permissive Action Link (es
by stopping 6y ago
This is essentially false. There are several redundant safety and security mechanisms protecting nuclear weapons, one of which is the Permissive Action Link (essentially a combination lock on the warhead). This is the component in question which once had the alleged code of 00000000: https://web.archive.org/web/20120511191600/http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm https://web.archive.org/web/20120511191600/http://www.cdi.or...
The "nuclear football" is a completely separate authentication mechanism for verifying a presidential order, and as far as we know uses codes that rotate on a daily basis.
- ncmncm 6y agoThe key words there are "as far as we know". Fool me once...
- stopping 6y agoAs far as we know, the earth is a globe. What point are you trying to make?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThat if the government is caught lying about how secure one part of the lock to the Armageddon button is, you have no reason to believe they aren't lying about the other part too. Particularly, if there's a strong incentive for the system to not be secure - which there is, namely, response time.