"" 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.""
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I was thinking password was the password. Lol

That wlda been just as hard to figure out also lol

Wow! That's kinda unprofessional imo. I've had to unlock codes before (on tv, or hotel cable box etc) and its a known fact the code is always 00000 so I'm surprised our government would use such a code

Yeah i know haha. But every time someone says password somewhere around me i say out loud "password is password! So i never forget my password. So if i ever forget to spell password it right their to copy!"

They had cut backs on creativity to fatten their pay checks i bet.

It was basically a time issue...back then, the military wasnt quite as trustful of the president as they are today.....plus, they wanted to retaliate as quickly as possible....and wasnt the "computer-ese" as there is now.

Well reckon back in them days not everything had a password to it now a days I swear in some places u caint even lift toilet seat without a password

Do not let your wife know that in future! Lol. I hear it now. "honey. Why is their a password to the toilet?" "because you don't know how to put the seat back down!"

but anyways yeah i can see why the military isn't to trusting to president about things. But seriously? 000000 why not at least 123456 so u knew how many numbers u were typing in.

Lmfao whats sad is you are not far off. if its not password its a credit card