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The baffling nuclear launch code that America used during the Cold War

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From 1962 to 1977 , the passcode used to keep any trigger-happy members of the Air Force from launching a nuclear strike was perhaps too easy to guess: 00000000 .

An unclassified manual for the nuclear-equipped Minuteman has confirmed the claim.

The manual, unearthed by Princeton scholar Dr Bruce Blair , helped end over a decade of debate between veteran missile launch officers and Air Force itself across the 21st Century .

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