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 for 20 years the ICBM launch codes were 00000000 to minimize delay https://buff.ly/2RManHR pic.twitter.com/2zBv5w0Q01
For more on this, 'The Doomsday Machine' is a great book on American nuclear strategy, by @DanielEllsberg
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