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    US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches

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    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    10.18.2019

    As we alarmingly learned in 2014, the US military has been using 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated '70s computer to receive nuclear launch orders from the President. Now, the US strategic command has announced that it has replaced the drives with a "highly-secure solid state digital storage solution," Lt. Col. Jason Rossi told c4isrnet.com.