BBC: British nukes were protected by bike locks

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

BBC's Newsnight reports:

"Newsnight has discovered that until the early days of the Blair government the RAF's nuclear bombs were armed by turning a 
bicycle lock key."

And later:
"The Bomb is actually armed by inserting a bicycle lock key into the arming switch and turning it through 90 degrees.
There is no code which needs to be entered or dual key system to prevent a rogue individual from arming the Bomb."

More at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7097101.stm

Sorry, this is late but reportedly the program was seen on Newsnight on Thursday, 15 November, 2007 at 10.30pm on BBC 
TWO.

- Juha-Matti
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