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Interesting Fact # 676 - Nuclear Bombs

Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated using a bicycle lock key.

(The BBC's Newsnight discovered that until the early days of the Blair government the RAF's nuclear bombs were armed by turning a bicycle lock key. Allegedly there was no other security on the bomb itself. Just imagine James Bond, no tamper-proof combination locks which could only be released if the correct code was transmitted, just get a bike lock key James. Not very exciting is it?)

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