Those videos are amazing. For reasons that go well beyond the intended message. Even the little things (choices of words, cinematographic style, “primitive” technologies, everybody lighting a cig as they initiate TEOWAWKI). I also remember when the B-47, B-52 and B-58, the Snark and Regulus, were the sexiest things going; and I remember the glue-smeared simulacra in my bedroom. Each, a totem of that power.

I can’t add much to W’s point, that “the root of war, is in the heart of man. It was never about the weapons.” The weapons are sign and instrument of what the heart would do. And since we are all fallen, the best we can hope for is uneasy equilibrium, weapons counterbalancing weapons, which both forces (and enables) the real rivalry to occur in more peaceful arenas. But as many others have said, how do you construct a deterrence strategy against people who seek death?