Just when you thought Reality couldn't get any weirder, we found out that,

[yortsed snacilbuper]

For 15 years during the Cold War, the code meant to prevent unauthorized launching of the United States’s arsenal of Minuteman nuclear missiles was “00000000”

According to [Bruce] Blair, the White House ordered the codes be installed in 1962 despite objections from the U.S. Strategic Air Command, which worried the extra layer of security would delay launching missiles in the event of an emergency.

“The locks had been installed,” recalled Blair, “but everyone knew the combination.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. That's my bank account number!

And my PIN and my mother's maiden name.

Wow.

[rickford66]

2. I think they changed it America's Birth Date.