Oh my god, Is this real? This totally destroys my confidence in high tech security keeping us safe. Anyone remember how little it took for these floppies to fail? This is something I would have kept a secret, little Kim is probably more up to date than this. lol
The old movie "War Games" was a good tale, but never possible.
Secure codes have to be physically delivered and two people twenty feet apart must execute the launch.
Outside of a petulant President _______ (fill in your favorite name), an inadvertent launch is pretty much impossible.
This is the exact opposite of high tech.
Another mystery is WHERE would you be buying these in 2017?
The Defense Department probably had to put out a bid to have them specially manufactured. 500 units at a cost of $32,918 each.
I work in nuclear command and control these days. Remember how long we've had these systems and understand how low their priority has been for modernization for both "if it works, then why change it?" and "security through obscurity" reasons.