Guess What the Secret Password Was to America’s Cold War Nuclear Missile System

No foolin’: The secret access code to the computer controls of the U.S. nuclear-tipped missile arsenal between 1968 and 1976: 00000000.

Just imagine what might have been happened if some gamer had guessed it.

Connections

• Motherboard TV: Doctor Teller’s Strange Loves
• The nuclear Motherboard
• US and Russia to team up for air defense wargame

Center for Defense Information This post originally appeared August 10, 2010.