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US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War

 
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US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
During the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that to minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile, for nearly two decades they intentionally set the launch codes at every silo in the US to 8 zeroes.

We guess the first thing we need to address is how this even came to be in the first place. Well, in 1962 JFK signed the National Security Action Memorandum 160, which was supposed to ensure that every nuclear weapon the US had be fitted with a Permissive Action Link (PAL), basically a small device that ensured that the missile could only be launched with the right code and with the right authority.


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More reports:

Secret nuclear launch code was 00000000

For nearly 20 years, the secret code to authorise the launch of US nuclear missiles was terrifyingly simple and noted on a checklist.

From 1962 until 1977, after John F Kennedy instituted Permissive Action Link (PAL) encoding on nuclear weapons, the combination to launch the destructive missiles at the pinnacle of the Cold War was just 00000000.

According to a report by Today I Found Out, the simple launch code was chosen by Strategic Air Command to make the weapons as easy to launch as possible in case of an emergency.

This was because there was initially concern that command centres or communication lines could have been destroyed in combat, preventing soldiers from getting the codes to launch missiles.

[link to au.news.yahoo.com]
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
Nice...
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
Well I can assure you it wasn’t, and just a hint why would you think it was just alpha-numeric.
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Morse code, the space between words is 7 dots. Makes sense.
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
take new one
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2020 2020
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now its 6666666666666666
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
Some idiot would put that as the code on their luggage...
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Amazing! That's the same combination on my luggage! - president schroo
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biden needs a simple one
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
More reports:

Secret nuclear launch code was 00000000

For nearly 20 years, the secret code to authorise the launch of US nuclear missiles was terrifyingly simple and noted on a checklist.

From 1962 until 1977, after John F Kennedy instituted Permissive Action Link (PAL) encoding on nuclear weapons, the combination to launch the destructive missiles at the pinnacle of the Cold War was just 00000000.

According to a report by Today I Found Out, the simple launch code was chosen by Strategic Air Command to make the weapons as easy to launch as possible in case of an emergency.

This was because there was initially concern that command centres or communication lines could have been destroyed in combat, preventing soldiers from getting the codes to launch missiles.

[link to au.news.yahoo.com]
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wow , i can even hack that with my calculator...
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FYI this is a lie ! None of the codes got updated untill the y2k update that's currently still being administrator for at least another 10 years #Facts
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12/09/2020 08:45 AM
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
These days with alpha numeric entry ability they went to something much more complex and harder to figure out:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
Well, now that the information is available to time travelers, we could vanish at any second.
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Anyone who has worked for the govt is not surprised by this.
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It’s ok, we changed it to “password” now
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Re: US Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 For 20 Years During Cold War
Hmmm thats eight 0s....or infinite 0


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