Re: No PAL please, we're British

2007-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 15, 2007 2:55 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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No PAL please, we're British

2007-11-15 Thread lists
According to this BBC story until fairly recently the British
military refused to have PALs on nuclear weapons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7097101.stm

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