From 1962 to 1977 the secret code to launch U.S. nuclear missiles was scary simple . To initiate this
devastating weapons , it took the Americans simply code 00,000,000th
As
we passed the site Today I Found Out, code it defined U.S. Air Force
during the Cold War , the
emergency order as soon as possible to
respond.
Americans
feared that during the fighting could disrupt the lines of the main
centers of
communication for soldiers to have no way to know the secret
password to launch the rockets .
Therefore decided to leave eight zeros .
"The rulebook said that the emergency would have to double check whether the dial is accidentally
any digit other than zero" - recalls Bruce Blair, a former member of the unit to launch nuclear rockets.
U.S. Air Force decided in 1977 to change however the secret password.