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05 November 2005

Guess that launch code! From 1960 until 1977, all U.S. Minuteman nuclear long-range ballistic missiles shared the same 8-digit launch combination: '00000000.'

post by: killdevil at: 23:31 | 14 comments

The above seems a sort of dodgy link, so I've found some corroboration here.

posted by killdevil 05 November | 23:36

It looks like Kruschev could definitely have broken into my apartment anytime he wanted.

posted by BoringPostcards 06 November | 00:39

Old news.

posted by kenko 06 November | 00:40

Ah, it was just some Pynchon-geek's tribute.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 06 November | 01:05

You lived in a Minuteman silo?

posted by trondant 06 November | 01:05

No, but I thought that was a so-stupid-its-smart combination. Too bad the guys who could have gotten us all blown into space dust thought the same thing.

posted by BoringPostcards 06 November | 01:09

It's never old news if it's new news to me.

posted by killdevil 06 November | 01:14

Apparently they also kept both of the launch keys under the welcome mat in front of the blast doors to the silo.

posted by loquacious 06 November | 01:42

That wouldn't even have been accepted as a Hotmail password.

posted by Skrik 06 November | 04:26

Well, hopefully nobody ever wrote it down.

posted by carter 06 November | 08:27

That's the same combination on my luggage!

posted by sciurus 06 November | 08:41

That's okay. The Russians, always trying to show us up, used 000000000

posted by briank 06 November | 08:54

Goddamnit, that's my hotmail password.

posted by loquacious 06 November | 10:51

"There are no midgets in the United States Air Force, mister."

posted by veedubya 07 November | 07:51

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