Godlike Productions - Discussion Forum
Users Online Now: 1,698 (Who's On?)Visitors Today: 17,757
Pageviews Today: 27,105Threads Today: 18Posts Today: 154
12:13 AM


Rate this Thread

Absolute BS Crap Reasonable Nice Amazing
 

For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!

 
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 49329178
United States
12/01/2013 10:03 AM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
WAS 00000000?

It's now 00000666...
gigatech
User ID: 1468761
Netherlands
12/01/2013 11:40 AM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
bsflag
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 44634170
United States
12/01/2013 11:49 AM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
I use this for all my passwords
 Quoting: Astral Goat


I've always used "password", even in online banking accounts , etc. And nothing bad has ever happened ...
Saddletramp

User ID: 736749
Puerto Rico
12/01/2013 11:50 AM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
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!"
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 17580510
Turkey
12/01/2013 12:02 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
0000000 is the cdy key of Half Life


bump for piracy :)
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 50721961
United States
12/01/2013 12:02 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
The keypad to enter the password was probably physically secure enough anyway that they didn't care.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 50871871
United States
12/01/2013 12:14 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
[link to www.businessinsider.com]

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]
 Quoting: SpaceCommand


Did your dad forward you this email?

bsflag
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 49697309
Canada
12/01/2013 12:22 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
John Lear is right again!
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 50873121
United States
12/01/2013 12:33 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
Now the code is 00000001.
gebahie

User ID: 10118097
United States
12/01/2013 12:51 PM

Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
I thought it was 1234abcd, would of been better
Rekrov

User ID: 16479241
United States
12/01/2013 01:24 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
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
01010
User ID: 49761904
United States
12/01/2013 02:03 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
Now its Log in "admin" pass "password"
without the " "
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 20759689
United States
12/01/2013 02:08 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
It did not matter, once they figured out how to fuchashima the whole world from their own backyard
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 46860464
United States
12/01/2013 02:23 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
I also was in the AF at SAC in the '90s...boy, could I tell you some stories...but I WON'T...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 50723004


You have too!
TruthBard

User ID: 49955806
United States
12/01/2013 02:43 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
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
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 33435073
United States
12/02/2013 02:14 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
I use this for all my passwords
 Quoting: Astral Goat


I've always used "password", even in online banking accounts , etc. And nothing bad has ever happened ...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44634170


:cruiser:
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 49329178
United States
12/02/2013 02:22 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!


lolsign
Coppercoal

User ID: 54637695
United States
11/25/2015 02:50 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: For Nearly Two Decades, The Launch Code At All US Minuteman Nuclear Missile Silos Was 00000000!
An oldie but a goodie! Never forget!
The big shots tried to hold it back; Fools tried to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end; Whatever the hopeless may say





GLP