 [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - American soldiers stationed at military bases in Europe armed with nuclear weapons have been unknowingly sharing secret protocols and base details
- Military personnel used flashcard apps to study and memorize the details of the nuclear weapon systems
- They failed to realize the flashcards containing highly confidential information was available online which anyone could look up
- Flashcards contained details including info helping soldiers remember which vaults within a base contained nuclear weapons and which ones were empty
- By simply looking up the names of specific bases thought to contain nuclear weapons details including about passwords, security procedures were revealed
- Locations of security cameras and duress signal words soldiers can use when compromised were also included
- The flashcards dated back to 2013 but some were as recent as April 2021
- Bellingcat then cross-referenced data from the flashcards with other reports and images shared online by soldiers themselves to verify existence of nuclear vaults
- All flashcards have since been deleted after the military were asked for comment
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