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To Stop Cheating, Nuclear Officers Ditch The Grades

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The young officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base have an enormous job: to keep 150 nuclear-tipped missiles ready to launch at a moment’s notice.

Understandably, they’re expected to know exactly what they’re doing.

Three times a month, they’re tested on the weapons and the codes used to launch them. Anything …Read More

Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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