Everyone needs to shut the hell up about nuclear obsolescence.
If we can just keep the politicians from noticing the need to "modernize" these terrible weapons, then in a few short decades we will have achieved a de facto global disarmament. Everyone can continue manning their silos filled with stale dud warheads, fingers hovering over buttons that no longer work. We'll have all the stratigic stabilizing influences of mutually-assured-destruction, with none of the actual threat-of-destruction.
But engineers and journalists need to shut up and not point out that the emperor's got no nukes.
If we can just keep the politicians from noticing the need to "modernize" these terrible weapons, then in a few short decades we will have achieved a de facto global disarmament. Everyone can continue manning their silos filled with stale dud warheads, fingers hovering over buttons that no longer work. We'll have all the stratigic stabilizing influences of mutually-assured-destruction, with none of the actual threat-of-destruction.
But engineers and journalists need to shut up and not point out that the emperor's got no nukes.