The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] go codes (Strategic Air Command ’s one-size-fits-all nuclear launch code was 00000000), but there were no recall orders. As Ellsburg relates, base commanders and bomber pilots had real autonomy to use their nukes; yet there was no system in place to stop them, in the event (for example) of an error of judgment, or […]

Skip to content