Secret US nuclear launch code - 00000000

[Webb]

Dial 00000000 for Armageddon. US’s top secret launch nuclear launch code was frighteningly simple

For nearly 20 years, the secret code to authorize launching U.S. nuclear missiles, and starting World War III, was terrifyingly simple and even noted down on a checklist.

From 1962, when John F Kennedy instituted PAL encoding on nuclear weapons, until 1977, the combination to fire the devastating missiles at the height of the Cold War was just 00000000.

This was chosen by Strategic Air Command in an effort to make the weapons as quick and as easy to launch as possible, as reported by Today I Found Out.

The Permissive Action Link (PAL) is a security device for nuclear weapons that it is supposed to prevent unauthorized arming or detonation of the nuclear weapon.

JFK signed the National Security Action Memorandum 160 in 1962 that required all nuclear missiles to be fitted with a PAL system.

But nuclear experts claim the military was worried about the possibility of command centers or communication lines being destroyed in real nuclear war, stopping soldiers getting the codes or authorization to launch missiles when they were actually needed.

So they simply left the security code for the weapons as eight zeros, getting around the security safeguards ...

How did anyone win the Cold War?

[H]

How did anyone win the Cold War?

They didn't -- the topic was too hot...

My launch code was even shorter:
Giant '0'
or the
Big 'O'

[CrashII]

Nobody ever 'won' the cold war. In fact it isn't even finished...

[Fozzer]

00000000..... ....!

World War III started due to incorrect keyboard repeat/delay settings..... .....!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind ... d-settings

Paul.... ...!

[Bass]

Clever code! Its so stupid that noone would ever believe it

(Nice LOL sign)

[Colt1775]

[Jetranger]

Now I'm confuzzzed ?

are those numerical 0's ?

or

Alphabet O's !!!

I need to know, really I do, so I can launch something

[Webb]

I guess you will have to decipher the HTML code.

[Webb]

Anyone wondering what the code is to deactivate the Soviet Doomsday Device?

YouTibe

[Fozzer]

Anyone wondering what the code is to deactivate the Soviet Doomsday Device?

YouTibe

During nuclear tests in 1946 on the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, it was found the the quickest way to deactivate the device was to unhook the little straps at the back, to allow the doomsday? device to fall forward, exposing the contents*....

Quote:
"In popular culture
Swimsuit design
Main article: bikini

The atoll's name became well-known world-wide as a result of the nuclear tests. On July 5, 1946, five days after the first nuclear device (nicknamed Able) was exploded over the Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads,[59] Louis Réard introduced a new swimsuit design named the bikini[60] after the atoll. Réard was a French mechanical engineer by training and manager of his mother's lingerie shop in Paris. He introduced the new garment to the media and public[61] on July 5, 1946[62] at Piscine Molitor, a public pool in Paris.[63] He hired Micheline Bernardini, a 19-year-old nude dancer from the Casino de Paris,[64] to demonstrate his design. It featured a g-string back of 30 square inches (200 cm2) of cloth with newspaper-type print and was an immediate sensation. Bernardini received 50,000 fan letters, many of them from men.[63][65]

Réard said that "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating".[66] Fashion writer Diana Vreeland described the bikini as the "atom bomb of fashion".[66] Réard hoped his swimsuit's revealing style would create an explosive commercial and cultural reaction, similar in intensity to society's response to the nuclear test on Bikini Atoll.[6][7][8][9]

The bikini's design violates Marshall Islanders' modern customs of modesty because it exposes a woman's thighs and shoulders.[14][15] However, before contact with Western missionaries, Marshall Island women were traditionally topless and still do not sexually objectify female breasts as is common in much of Western society[11] which the bikini does cover. Marshall Island women swim in their muumuus which are made of a fine polyester that dries quickly.[15] Wearing a bikini in the Marshall Islands is mainly limited to restricted-access beaches and pools like those at private resorts or on United States government facilities on the Kwajalein Atoll within the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.[67][68]"
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I love deactivating Bikini "Doomesday" devices... ...!

Paul.... ... ...!

* ....probably... ...!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll

[Steve M]

10 and half months later... It's just uncanny how they knew the PIN number to my Gold MasterCard.