An interesting thread, but this source portrays the incident in a slightly different light :
Beyond those incidents, a story suggests that a pilot of the Forces aériennes stratégiques took off with nuclear weapons under his wings thinking he had received an order to go when actually that was not the case.
https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet...ommunications/
The source also provides some very interesting (some might say disturbing) information regarding French release authentication systems.
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