The "football"

[Earth_First]

Anyone believe that * reads this on the can?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football

Secondly, does it make anyone else uncomfortable that this man as access to this information?

[wakeme2008]

1. But does he

if you check the Nixon hearings, near the end, the codes were out of date in the "football".

[Gatchaman]

2. Yankee White?

I'm a little more bugged that the nation's highest security clearance is codenamed Yankee White.

The case is a "modified Zero-Haliburton briefcase" too. This just gets better and better.

As for the instruction book, no human has any right to ever open that case, so what and how the manual is written is of little concern to me. It does sound like a promising idea for a fark.com photoshop contest though.

[glaeken777]

3. paraphrasal with regards to the late mr kubrick...

"Contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."