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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A red padlocked safe inside the launch control center.

Padlocked Codes

This padlocked safe inside the launch control center once contained authentication codes that would have been identified in a launch order during the Cold War, had a launch order ever gone out.

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