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“The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June [2014],” Justin Oakes, a spokesman for the Eighth Air Force, said in an email. “This replacement effort exponentially increased message storage capacity and operator response times for critical nuclear command and control message receipt and processing.”

Read it by the implied phonetic component, 哥。

More broadly speaking, there are some true facts cited in this post, but the basic premise is horseshit, and the whole of it should be retracted.

As Andrew West has pointed out, these characters were not "made up" as they are real characters attested in Chinese texts. From a Unicode perspective, none of them is a "ghost character" at all.