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There was a whole drama over exactly this in the Cold War. Permissive Action Links were deeply unpopular with the military because they put control of the weap
by georgefrowny 1y ago
There was a whole drama over exactly this in the Cold War.
Permissive Action Links were deeply unpopular with the military because they put control of the weapons with the government, rather than with the relevant commanders. Even when finally mandated, the military set the codes to all zeros.
- p_l 1y agoA significant part of it was that Strategic Air Command was essentially an apocalyptic death cult in many ways and despised anything that would slow down issuance and realisation of order to murder as many civilians as possible in shortest amount of time. Coincidentally, US Navy's PALs never required "keys".