We had 'backpack' nukes in Special Forces. When did the Pentagon remove Nixon's access to the codes? Which President sent them out with his laundry? It's scarier than you think. Some facts about where some of the codes ended up and what some of them were. How the military often opposes the President reference the codes. And what if . . .

1. Scary Facts About
Presidents, Nuclear
Launch Codes &
Nuclear Weapons

2. What is the reality of the nuclear “football”
and the launch codes?
Not what you might think.

3. The Book of Truths
Following are some of the truths from our
history.
We know about them now; after the fact.

4. The Book of Truths
Jimmy Carter once sent the nuclear
launch codes out with his laundry.

5. General Curtis LeMay strongly pushed for a
pre-emptive nuclear strike against the Soviet
Union.
When President Kennedy took office and was
finally briefed about the truth, he learned that
there was indeed a ‘missile gap’. Except it was
the United States that had the far greater
capability.

6. When Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
instituted technical launch codes on nuclear
weapons to prevent unauthorized deployment,
the Strategic Air Command decided to over-ride
that by setting all codes to 00000000.
After all, that’s the Air Force.

7. We had ‘Green Light’ teams in Special Forces
before the accuracy of cruise missiles.
A Green Light team’s accuracy was
parachuting in with a SADM (Special Atomic
Demolition Munition), aka ‘backpack nuke’, and
emplacing it on the target, then covering it with
sniper fire.
A question often debated: was there actually a
delay once armed?

8. The first nuclear weapon the United States
has officially admitted “losing” was in 1950,
over Canada.
The plane was found.
The weapon still hasn’t been found.
Sorry, Canada. Our bad.

9. The Pentagon reportedly removed
President Nixon’s ability to launch nuclear
weapons during his last days in office.

10. The Book of Truths
When Ronald Reagan was shot, the
codes were in his suit pocket and ended
up on the emergency room floor,
forgotten about.

11. The Book of Truths
But there are other, deeper, darker, truths, that
will never see the light of day. Included among
them are Majestic-12, Area 51, Rifts, Fireflies,
Cherry Tree, Pinnacle, the Nightstalkers, and
ultimately, the existence of the Time Patrol.

13. Nightstalkers Series
When I was flying around with my special operations team in black
helicopters, we wondered who the other guys flying around in them were?
Nightstalkers are the elite Special Ops unit that take care of the things that
go bump in the night; and worse. They correct the mistakes of scientists.
They’re also a little bit crazy and a long way outside the bell curve, and not
necessarily on the good end. And in Time Patrol, they transition from being
Nightstalkers to becoming the Time Patrol.

14. The Nightstalkers eventually become the Time Patrol.
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15. New York Times bestselling author, graduate of West Point and
former Green Beret. He’s had over 75 books published, including the
#1 bestselling series Green Berets, Time Patrol, Area 51, and Atlantis.
He’s sold over 5 million books. He was born in the Bronx and traveled
the world. He’s lived on an island off the east coast, an island off the
west coast, in the Rocky Mountains, the Smoky Mountains and other
places, including time in East Asia studying martial arts.
He now lives peacefully with his wife and dogs.
www.bobmayer.com