[lukan]

It is probably a miracle, that no nukes were used by accidents or random madmen yet. But those sort of incidents really don't make me feel save, by all that destruction potential guarded by 00000000. I don't really trust, that today it somehow became really save. Even if they changed it, it probably is still attached in a pinup note next to it.

[sillywalk]

There were a lot of near nuclear incidents. The madmen part reminded me Nixon, and this article, about an ICBM crew member doing training in the '70s:

"Maj. Hering decided to ask his question anyway, regardless of consequences: How could he know that an order to launch his missiles was “lawful”? That it came from a sane president, one who wasn’t “imbalance[d]” or “berserk,” as Maj. Hering’s lawyer eventually, colorfully put it?

Hering needed a lawyer because as soon as he asked the question he was yanked out of missile training class, and after two years of appeals, eventually had to leave the Air Force, trade in a launch key for the ignition keys to an 18-wheeler.

[0] https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how...

[arethuza]

Well at least they have codes - the UK nuclear weapons are ultimately controlled by a set of hand-written letters.