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Why "for nearly 2 decades"? It doesn't explain how this stopped being the case, did I miss the paragraph where it explained that the codes are no longer 0000000
by eterm 13y ago
Why "for nearly 2 decades"? It doesn't explain how this stopped being the case, did I miss the paragraph where it explained that the codes are no longer 00000000?
- goodcanadian 13y agoApparently, you did. Near the end (second or third last paragraph): "Dr. Blair . . . decided to outline it for the public in this 1977 article where he described how just four people acting in tandem could easily activate a nuclear launch in the silos he had worked in. Further, amongst other things, the PAL system McNamara had touted was barely in operation and thus launches could be authorised by anyone without Presidential authority . . . It is, perhaps, not coincidence that the PAL systems were all activated and the codes changed the same year this article was published."