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Were America’s Nuclear Codes Set To Zero? Looks Like It, And Worse
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Tom NicholsI said I doubted the story, since the only source I could find for it was Bruce Blair, who mentioned it in a 2004 article. I theorized that Blair (a former missile officer himself and a leading arms control analyst now at Princeton) had either been misunderstood, or had been misleading: perhaps, I thought, he meant that the initial settings on the mechanism for the codes had to be set at zero.