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> The U.S. Air Force has revealed three ballistic missile
> launch crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while
> holding classified launch code devices this month.
And when they woke up, the silo was incrusted with rust, the lock falling off, the warheads half decayed, and they each found themselves with grey beards a foot long. As they rose to walk, they found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in their usual activity. And when they gathered their wits and made their way to the village of Minot, they asked the passers-by, "How goes the Soviet Union?"
There was silence for a little while, when an old man replied in a thin, piping voice, "The Soviet Union? why, that is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about it, but that’s rotted and gone, too."
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