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For 20 Years the Nuclear Launch Code at US Minuteman Silos Was 00000000 »
Today I found out that 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. Source Main page (current trends)
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