Can an enemy make our arsenal go off in their silos or warehouses or ships? Is it in any way possible.
yes, it possible but not with a malware, but with a worm or a virus. because worms usually infect a computer network, and don't need a human intervention. viruses need a human intervention and a HOST machine. in every wester countries federal goverments and militaries facilities are isolate from the Internet, they have their own intranets. and protected by few layers of defense.
i do not thing so as a nuke is safe and has to have a long line of code be in put and its something like 90 symbols or some thing like that not shore about the number and letters or any thing like that but that has to be inputted in to the missile before it becomes armed and ready to kill also the codes are changed on a regular bases and all codes are missile specific and no there are no code crackers that can do that its not as easy as the movies make it look in the real word it would take months to crack something that long and by then the code would have been changed, all so there is the human factor there is really a key system to keep all computer errors from doing any thing like this o they have to turn the key which i think its some sort of circuit thing to let the transmitter talk to the missile in order or some the like that to happen the following would have to happen a program would have to be made to make then missile so off this virus would have to be intelligent is not passable so far in computers) it would have to get in to the military computer's networks (i think they use there own in fact im shore they do so it is imposable for it to jump from the public internet) then all the computers that transmitter the code to the missiles would have to drop there firewalls and all security programs and then the program you have to arm the missile upload its self in to the humans brain then turn the key and set the time to zero and boom so you see we are quite safe and that just outdated stuff from like the 80's i mean if we know about it then its really out of date.
In terms of accessing the nuclear arsenal and 'launch codes the stuff of sci-fi thrillers while possible is pretty unlikely. The nature of DOD IT defensives essentially isolates the networks these devices reside on both physically and logical from the internet. In terms of network security the 1st requirement would be to gain physical access to the network. DOD policy keeps employees in control of that segment of the network from browsing the internet, by internal and network policy devices, these people are no-longer shoved in holes in the ground and manning each silo. Malware by design is attempt at using social engineering to infect a system. the safeguards of these networks disallow the ability of the personnel to do that.
