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Until 2019, the U.S. nuclear arsenal control system ran on an IBM Series/1 computer, a piece of hardware that dates to the 1970s, and used 8-inch floppy disks to manage weapons like intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft.
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