I remember the drills and bomb shelters of the later cold war era. Duck and cover. Kiss my ass goodbye. I really recall the relief as the cold war went away, or largely so. MAD worked on a carefully measured scale of calibrated brinkmanship. We came so close to disaster.

Do we want that again multiplied by 3 or 4 or 5 nuclear nations, run by theocrats? We really are only a few years from a bunch of countries being able to orbit small satellites themselves. That means a possible warhead anywhere along the trajectory. Global.

About this thing-We have the luxury of being beyond reach for now. First for our European allies, and then too soon for us that luxury is going away like a ’90s retirement plan.