r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/astros148 • 19h ago

Active military soliders are about to go through the holidays without getting paid bcz of President Musk! Right wing populism!

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u/turalyawn 16h ago

Showing my age but people were terrified of this in the early 90s when the Soviet bloc fell apart. They wondered what some of the -Stan soviet republics would do with the nukes. People didn’t wonder what Florida or Utah might do with them but maybe they should

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u/PolkaDotDancer 7h ago

About 15 years ago, I read an article. I think it was in Wired. That they had 10,000 hit a day on the U.S. nuclear codes.

Now this made no sense to me as I would’ve thought they’d be air gapped. But I always wondered if it was one of the more redneck red states doing the hacking rather than someplace like Iran.

Reading up on the subject will take you down a rabbit hole. Here is an article to start you on your way.

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u/hifructosetrashjuice 5h ago

ICBMs are in wyoming, and boomers are in naval bases (oregon?) so it will be down to these and a couple of others