For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000! | |
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User ID: 736749 Puerto Rico 12/01/2013 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well apparently it worked... "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 50871871 United States 12/01/2013 12:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.businessinsider.com] Quoting: SpaceCommand Nov. 29, 2013, 8:41 PM Karl Smallwood, Today I Found Out 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. We guess the first thing we need to address is how this even came to be in the first place. Well, in 1962 JFK signed the National Security Action Memorandum 160, which was supposed to ensure that every nuclear weapon the US had be fitted with a Permissive Action Link (PAL), basically a small device that ensured that the missile could only be launched with the right code and with the right authority. There was particularly a concern that the nuclear missiles the United States had stationed in other countries, some of which with somewhat unstable leadership, could potentially be seized by those governments and launched. With the PAL system, this became much less of a problem. Beyond foreign seizure, there was also simply the problem that many U.S. commanders had the ability to launch nukes under their control at any time. Just one commanding officer who wasn’t quite right in the head and World War III begins. As U.S. General Horace M. Wade stated about General Thomas Power: I used to worry about General Power. I used to worry that General Power was not stable. I used to worry about the fact that he had control over so many weapons and weapon systems and could, under certain conditions, launch the force. Back in the days before we had real positive control [i.e., PAL locks], SAC had the power to do a lot of things, and it was in his hands, and he knew it. More at: [link to www.businessinsider.com] Did your dad forward you this email? |
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User ID: 16479241 United States 12/01/2013 01:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This re-affirms that the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is/was all bullshit and posturing, most likely in response to the UFO "intervention" era that followed shortly thereafter In the last century, what percentage of wars has the U.S. or Britain played a part in? I'd be curious to know an actual figure, whether we were directly fighting or merely financing and/or supplying arms, intel, personnel training, media propping, etc... this is done mostly thru the CIA and it's various fronts. The world is a chessboard for the elite. Even the recent conflict in China will play out, as all others have, in a series of talks behind closed doors with money exchanged and various promises made. Divide & conquer at it's finest with the public assuming the world could end at any minute from nuclear holocaust.. wake the fuck up; the only way ANYONE is launching a nuke in the modern era is with the knowledge or direct involvement from the hidden hand Assuming as the paranoid sheep do that the doomsday scenarios are in play, to what advantage is it to kill the 'goose that laid the golden egg,' i.e. - society at large. All their amassed fortunes keep the collective boot of oppression pressed firmly on our backs; if the mass-genocide fear mongering doesn't imply this, then surely think one step further -- should the world population be drastically reduced, what will their material wealth consist of and buy them? If anything, the world's population could hit 15 billion before the strain is felt on oil completely. Other suppressed tech obviously exists to fill the void when it does... The great question remains - what are the intentions of the watchers and how long have they maintained a vested interest in us? Does their allowance of our burgeoning police state government and the suppression of higher technology imply the ETs are hostile and co-operative... or do they just not give a shit? Also, reptilians DISCLAIMER: For Entertainment Purposes Only |
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User ID: 49955806 United States 12/01/2013 02:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In a way it actually makes a ton of security sense... Lets say enemy forces captured some silo commanders and placed them under extreme duress for the launch codes... If all of them just said 00000000 they would figure they were all just bullshitting you, that these officers were indeed the finest and bravest since they could stand up to so much punishment and stick to the official script... The enemy forces would have very little confidence in going forward with their doomsday plans without launch codes for multiple silos that sounded more legit than 00000000. I could be wrong tho I dunno... Last Edited by TruthBard on 12/01/2013 02:47 PM |
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