[war] America’s Nuclear Arsenal Still Runs Off Floppy Disks … ‘The control room was not what Stahl-or I-expected: There’s no “big button,” but there are floppy disks. Like the old, big 8-inch floppy disks. Like the kind, […] that are often featured in a computer history museum or found in your attic, beneath old DOS manuals. Like, not even the newer, 3.5-inch model of floppy disk. That’s how they control our nuclear missiles. At 23 years old, the deputy missileer said she had never even seen a floppy disk before finding one that can help wreak untold carnage on planet Earth.’
America’s Nuclear Arsenal Still Uses Floppy Disks
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