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8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to management (europe.pub)
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[–] bad1080@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

i mean the security code for US nuclear weapons was 00000000 for a very long time
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/cybersecurity/launch-code-for-us-nuclear-arsenal-was-00000000-until-1977/ar-AA1vxdKa