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Re: No PAL please, we're British
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mheyman@gmail.com)
Fri Nov 16 11:02:43 2007
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:43:37 -0500
From: "mheyman@gmail.com" <mheyman@gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <473CA44B.mailD0A11BDF8@notatla.org.uk>
On Nov 15, 2007 2:55 PM, <lists@notatla.org.uk> wrote:
> According to this BBC story until fairly recently the British
> military refused to have PALs on nuclear weapons.
> [SNIP]
>From the story:
The Bomb is actually armed by inserting a bicycle lock
key into the arming switch and turning it through 90
degrees.
I wonder if they knew how to defeat it with a Bic pen? (see
<http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/09/64987>)
-Michael Heyman
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