US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months'

[BridgeTheGap]

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."

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/10/22/1514243

[LiberalFighter]

1. I call efn bullshit.

If they had the same code for months that would be totally stupid.

[BridgeTheGap]

2. It was also "totally stupid" for U.S.A.F. bombers to carry live nukes over the U.S.

and no one seemed to know they were on the planes.

[hedgehog]

3. Did they look under the bed? When I can't find my shoes,

I always look under the bed.