Go code

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In the military, a go code refers to a coded transmission sent from the "powers that be" to military personnel giving them the go ahead to strike. In particular, it refers to transmissions B-52 crews awaited as they loitered just outside the airspace of Cold War Russia. Upon receiving and confirming such a message, crews would then attempt to deploy nuclear weapons on pre-determined targets within the communist state.

This premise is the basis for Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove.