[GreyFriar]

Ping for: Air Force Swears: Our Nuke Launch Code Was Never ‘00000000’

[DanielRedfoot]

At least the code wasn’t LOST as it was with Buba

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. In this case, I believe the Air Force. I was on an aircrew in SAC during the Cuban missile crisis. Launch messages were never a single string of digits. They were a series of four-letter groups that had to be authenticated and then decoded using a one-time pad. We were tested on this procedure every time we went on alert, and the minimum passing grade was 100 percent.