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The earliest reference to a "button that can destroy a country/the world" that I found was from 1896 — starring Thomas Edison, "The wrecker of worlds"!pic.twitter.com/8bystIuiGE
Which is to say explicitly, I think William Safire was wrong that the idea of "the button" is a reference to obscure WWII bomber hardware. The trope is *much* older, but was easily and almost instantly grafted onto the atomic age. CC: @goldmanrussell re: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/world/asia/nuclear-button-trump-north-korea.html?_r=0 …
So quick question for ya, is there any truth to the tale that the default codes were left to 0000000 or something like that?
Bruce Blair says there was truth to it, the USAF disputes it. I don't know the answer.http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/21/air-force-swears-our-nuke-launch-code-was-never-00000000/ …
Having spent time in the military, I gotta go with Blair...
In the 19th Century, when there was political unease at the idea of a Channel tunnel btw England/France, one suggestion was that a button in London could be connected to an explosive charge that could collapse the tunnel in the event of war between the two countries.
(They of course went on to build the tunnel about 100 years later - without the explosives.)
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