drone attacks on nuclear-bomb-delivery planes

I’ve always thought it likely that nuclear weapons will be used again. Is there an instance of the development of weapons that are available but never used? Hardly.

Human population could be reduced humanely, gradually, over time or it could be reduced cataclysmically via one general usage of nuclear weapons resulting in a “nuclear winter.” I hope that will never happen, but it’s easy to imagine it happening. The Ukraine war keeps ratcheting up tensions.

Geopolitical tensions seem to build toward periodic conflagrations. It’s been a while. And now we’re sliding backward in terms of nuclear weapons control. The drone attack constitutes a big step backward because the control treaties stipulated that the nuclear-bomb-delivery planes must be kept out in the open, visible, for verification purposes. All signatory countries have done that and they’ve all monitored each other.

Israel never was a signatory. Israel keeps its hidden. Now they all will have incentive to keep theirs hidden, abrogating the treaties.

A step backward.

Nuclear war is a big all-at-once horror of a crisis. Industrial modernity is a slow, enervating, ecocidal, background horror of a crisis. Woe.