According to Shelton, that explanation was enough to satisfy this officer, whose responsibility was to confirm the security of thecodes necessary to control weapons that could literally destroy all life on Earth and that hopefully deter an attack on the US with similar weapons, and no one checked again that month.
This used thelife of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.
Mr Obasanjo must start to refashion not just the institutions of the state but thecodes of practice and patterns of behaviour among the people at large that make civilised life possible.