Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "New Mind" channel.

  1.  @monad_tcp  actually, the opposite. The safety wire and later ball linked chain would be removed to arm the bomb and couldn't be reinserted to safe it. Of course, the safety system was horrifically lacking as well, had a couple that very nearly accidentally detonated after a crash. Because of the near-detonation, they redesigned everything to be multipoint safe, where there was no way for the damned thing to go into a nuclear detonation accidentally. They also removed RDX from the cores, as that grew unstable on exposure to the radiation flux from the core. The new explosive being quite insensitive to shock, heat or radiation.
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  2.  @larrybremer4930  you mean that the secret PAL code was 0000 and well, everyone knew it. Literally.
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  3.  @christopherleubner6633  as I recall, the ball chain replacement wasn't much better. Pull it out, couldn't put it back in and required a rebuild.
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  4. I dunno, it did decide "Let there be light"...
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  5. None, those all got retired. Too much maintenance and better solutions are available.
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  6.  @VariantAEC  wouldn't work, the neutron generator wouldn't fire, so all you'd get is a dirty bomb and a kit if pissed off people with mops.
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  7. Yeah, but there was also a launch code that, if incorrect or not entered would leave the fuel disconnected on half of the engines.
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  8.  @patrickvolk7031  detonation detection had sound based, pressure based, seismic based and satellite based. Our intermediate nuclear missiles were of course, theater based, so theater command gets codes for launch, forwards local missile codes to plug into the PDP-11/70, it sent its voodoo to the missile's computer. They got retired as they were being deployed to replace the earlier generation. Thankfully. Yeah, I was Pershing at the beginning of my career.
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  9. OK, you don't, the other guy does and one city at a time goes until you surrender.
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  10. That happened in the '80's with Reagan. Somehow, we survived. Nixon was a drunk and actually ordered a North Korean airfield nuked. The chief of staff put the order on his desk and said, "Let's let him sleep it off and see what he wants to do in the morning. Until further notice, all such orders go directly to my desk first". Then, there was Trump, who wanted to nuke a hurricane to put it out. Fortunately, he couldn't get through the OPLAN. Now, there's Biden, who'd have no problem following the OPLAN and vaporizing Russia if necessary.
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  11. Does it matter? First, you have to get to the device. That was always a two man task, one alone approaching is subject to lethal force in a very prompt manner. From the Titan missiles onward, one fuel valve was disabled with its own code, no correct code, it stays off and the missile becomes a really big lawn dart on fuel exhaustion. You'd also need to enter a target package, as missiles have long been programmable and default to no target. Try to get into the warhead control panel the wrong way, disable the high voltage system, disabling the explosives and neutron generator.
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  12.  @rnts08  it's dead hand and that's the alternate, they use a system similar to our PAL.
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  13.  @monad_tcp  not even deep web, any decent college library has the references. Some even have the supercomputers, but oh, not the software. The neutron generator used is also kind of impressive, it's decidedly not a college physics lab kind of model.
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  14.  @petergerdes1094  even funnier, 8 inch floppies. And wind up nukes... ;)
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  15. No can do, I'm out and won't be able to get more until my pension check is deposited. Donations are accepted at 1581 Commodore drive.
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  16.  @JurekOK  well, there is the missile fuel unlock code to enter as well for ICBMs. Otherwise, all one could do is launch an unarmed lawn dart.
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  17.  @tomnguyen9931  quick! Change the combination on my luggage.
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  18.  @patrickvolk7031  the SIOP was replaced in 2012 by OPLAN 8010-12, that was updated in 2023 by OPLAN 8044. Same basic beast, streamlined and updated and someone justified their job by renaming it.
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  19. Whatever floats your boat, sparky. I worked on them.
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  20. Yes, we're all dead. So, respect the dead before I haunt you.
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  21. Mind? Haven't had one of those in 41 years of marriage.
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  22.  @bastadimasta  amazing! Two felons are good, a man with a clean record is evil. God is evil too, right, only the devil will do for you.
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  23. Well, it was dealing with the old CRM 114 discriminator.
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