Wikileaks - good for America?

[Hoosier]

It's a good thing PFC Manning did not have access to nuclear consent codes, or I would be facing a global nuclear war.

For seventeen years, during the height of the nuclear crises of the Cold War, the code remained all zeros, and was even printed in each silo’s launch checklist for all to see. The codes remained this way up until 1977, when the service was pressed into activating the McNamara locks with real launch codes in place. Before that time, the the lack of safeguards would have made it relatively easy for a small group of rogue silo officers or visitors to implement an unauthorized nuclear missile launch.

http://www.damninteresting.com/ive-g...-on-my-luggage

H.