No PAL please, we're British

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According to this BBC story until fairly recently the British
military refused to have PALs on nuclear weapons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7097101.stm

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Re: No PAL please, we're British

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On Nov 15, 2007 2:55 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to this BBC story until fairly recently the British
> military refused to have PALs on nuclear weapons.
> [SNIP]
>From the story:

The Bomb is actually armed by inserting a bicycle lock
key into the arming switch and turning it through 90
   degrees.

I wonder if they knew how to defeat it with a Bic pen? (see
)

-Michael Heyman

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