From Russian Missiles To Hawaiian Warning, A History Of Nuclear False Alarms
“During the early to mid-1970s, through my stint as a Minuteman launch officer, they nonetheless had not been changed,” he wrote. “Our launch checklist in truth instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to guarantee that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel.” Those issues had been stirred again this month, immediately after service officials disclosed that they effectively had removed 34 nuke officers from their positions…