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There's a picture in there titled something like "Missile keys on lanyards". Is it just me, or are they all key blanks? I.e there's no pin bitting?
1. They don't want to post the launch codes to the internet, or
2. The code is just 000000 (hey it's not the worst I've ever seen)
> The military’s rationale for offering us access seemed clear. The brass, apparently, wanted to help get Americans accustomed to the increasingly real prospect of conflict with a genuinely powerful opponent. They wanted to humanize the otherwise inhuman—some would say inhumane—reality of nuclear deterrence. And, finally, they wanted to convey a message to China and Russia about US forces and their strategic capabili…
Doesn't this project weakness? Is there any reason to believe China or Russia have had doubts about US capabilities that this would now... resolve?
There's a picture in there titled something like "Missile keys on lanyards". Is it just me, or are they all key blanks? I.e there's no pin bitting?
>>> Nothing was fired, of course. The keys inserted were effectively blanks.
Seems like they used special exercise keys, and that's probably the ones in the photo.
> The military’s rationale for offering us access seemed clear. The brass, apparently, wanted to help get Americans accustomed to the increasingly real prospect of conflict with a genuinely powerful opponent. They wanted to humanize the otherwise inhuman—some would say inhumane—reality of nuclear deterrence. And, finally, they wanted to convey a message to China and Russia about US forces and their strategic capabili…
There's a picture in there titled something like "Missile keys on lanyards". Is it just me, or are they all key blanks? I.e there's no pin bitting?
Either 1. They don't want to post the launch codes to the internet, or 2. The code is just 000000 (hey it's not the worst I've ever seen)
https://sgs.princeton.edu/00000000
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link
> According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers. Blair said the missile launch checklists included an item confirming this combination until 1977.[7] A 2014 article in Foreign Policy said that the US Air Force told the United States House Committee on Armed Services that "A code consisting of eight zeroes has never been used to enable a MM ICBM, as claimed by Dr. Bruce Blair."[8] The Air Force's statement (that 00000000 was never used to enable an ICBM, i.e. the weapons were not actually launched) does not contradict Blair's statement (that 00000000 was the code for doing so).
There's a picture in there titled something like "Missile keys on lanyards". Is it just me, or are they all key blanks? I.e there's no pin bitting?
> The military’s rationale for offering us access seemed clear. The brass, apparently, wanted to help get Americans accustomed to the increasingly real prospect of conflict with a genuinely powerful opponent. They wanted to humanize the otherwise inhuman—some would say inhumane—reality of nuclear deterrence. And, finally, they wanted to convey a message to China and Russia about US forces and their strategic capabili…
Did a spokesperson say that? Else just another case where the authors opinion and hyperthetical is presented as fact.
> The military’s rationale for offering us access seemed clear. The brass, apparently, wanted to help get Americans accustomed to the increasingly real prospect of conflict with a genuinely powerful opponent. They wanted to humanize the otherwise inhuman—some would say inhumane—reality of nuclear deterrence. And, finally, they wanted to convey a message to China and Russia about US forces and their strategic capabili…