US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months'

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 22, 2010 @04:11AM from the dropping-the-football dept.

Martin Hellman writes "Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Hugh Shelton, has dropped a nuclear bombshell, metaphorically speaking. Shelton's recently released memoir Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, asserts that an aide to President Clinton lost a card containing key phrases needed for ordering a nuclear strike, and that the codes were missing for months. This confirms a similar allegation, made in 2004 by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a military aide who frequently carried the 'nuclear football' during the Clinton presidency. Unfortunately, human error within the nuclear weapons complex is a frequent and dangerous occurrence."

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Time to take the men out of the loop ... by tgd · 2010-10-22 04:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Turn the decision making over to a computer. I'm sure it can't find the launch codes.
1. Re:Time to take the men out of the loop ... by 0100010001010011 · 2010-10-22 04:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
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