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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
That's as bad when I heard a few months ago on CNN that for about 20 years, the nuclear codes were set to all zeroes (such as 00000000000 or whatever).
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That was the launch code selection in the actual launch sites, not the codes carried in the "football" - just the ones that had to be physically selected at launch. The actual sequence was eight zeroes, or 00000000. The Soviets, Chinese or terrorist "flavour of the week" could not have used them to remotely trigger a launch, so it was still secure, if frighteningly simple-minded and lazy.