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November 08, 2005
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We have all seen the movies: American Minuteman missiles required an eight digit combination to activate. Will somebody please tell me this next bit is not true.
But what Secretary McNamara didn’t know is that from the very beginning, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in Omaha had decided that these locks might interfere with any wartime launch orders; so in order to circumvent this safeguard, they pre-set the launch code on all Minuteman silos to the same eight digits: 00000000.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 8, 2005 08:23 AM
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True but irrelevant, according to some bloke off the internet.
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at November 8, 2005 11:22 AM