'I used the codeword "Broken Arrow", which meant
American unit in contact and in danger of being overrun..."

I always understood it to mean a nuclear weapon had been lost in an
aircraft accident.

I suppose it morphed from "nuke lost" to "worst thing that could
happen" to "they're coming!"?

all the best -- Dan Ford
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