The code to launch US atomic bombs: 00000000

A big dispute can be arranged by asking the question: “Is the truism“ Is everything ingenious just “to information security?” Especially if security, ahem, is not so much informational as physical.

And it made the news think about this, that for 20 years, the code for launching all US nuclear missiles of the Minuteman family was ... Eight zeros! Yes, I imagine the faces of terrorists, in the best traditions of cinema, shooting through the knee to the president and hearing the code "zero, zero, zero, zero ... input"
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“In our instructions, before launch, it was actually stated that we should inform the brigade, double check the closure of the hatch of the underground bunker and make sure that no other digits except the zeros were randomly typed on the operating panel,” admits Bruce G. Blair, a former Air Force officer.