We Let Our Deterrent Degrade While Others Modernize

Nuclear weapons are among the most useless of all military ordnance. They are extraordinarily destructive and produce long term radiation fallout which makes them a serious environmental problem. But because they exist (anyone with enough money and enough physics can make them) they are an ideal terror weapon which can hold millions of people hostage in the face of threats to use them. Historically, only Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD, what an appropriate acronym) has seemed to stabilize the world, a sort of mad agreement to terrorize each other. But as some of the most irresponsible nations, proponents of hate, acquire nuclear weapons, we have been proposing to throttle back on missile defense and the necessary modernization of our own nuclear arsenal. That really is madness. SEE HERE