The Secret Nuclear History of Cat Videos
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-secret-nuclear-history-of-cat-videos
Behind every Rickroll is a technology designed at the height
of the Cold War to guarantee nuclear annihilation. Since the
late 1990s, this technology has gone by vague names like
"differentiated services," "AF41," and "CS5." But the manuals
still use their old names: precedence, a system for making
certain the most critical messages would always get through;
Flash Override, designed to allow the President to reliably
control nuclear weapons after a surprise Soviet attack; and
CRITIC/ECP, a priority so high that even the US Strategic Air
Command never used it.
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--Lauren--
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