ASSWORDS for nuclear missiles at a US silo became insecure after three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep at their posts.

'Fortunately' an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts found that, while a terrorist could have snuck into the base past the sleeping crew members, the launch codes would have done little good.

But that was because the passwords were out of date and the crew wouldn't have been able to launch a muffin in the advent of a nuclear attack by Iran or North Korea, who are probably the only ones likely to want to launch a nuclear strike on the US.

It is the latest in a long list of security stuff ups by the Air Force which recently mailed four Air Force fusing devices to Taiwan and armed a B-52 with six nuclear warheads.

via theinquirer