An Aging Cold War Policy May Make It Easier to Hack Nuclear Warheads
Floppy record . Cheating scheme . Drunken bar prank . The security of America ’s atomic blazon is … less than complete . And now , more critic are questioning the outdated policies that regulate them . Lead figure of speech : inactivate missiles with their warheads removed in 1965 . AP Photo / Ellis Bosworth . It ’s been almost 25 eld since the Cold War finish , but America ( and Russia)still keep thousands of atomic warhead on “ high alert,”meaning they can be set up within minutes if a missile launched by an enemy is detected using radar or artificial satellite systems ....