Should we again be getting ready to deal with a nuclear bomb?

The other night, we had a neighborhood-wide power outage. The national electric company is very good about telling you about it after you have no lights on in your home. They periodically send out SMS updates to tell of progress and when they think that your router and refrigerator will work once again. Sitting in the dark, I had a good reason to play hooky from writing a patent. But then I began to think. I still remember the nuclear drills we did as children. I don’t know how hiding under a desk would help (“duck and cover”) when we would be welded to the desk at 10,000 degrees of heat. But at least people believed that nuclear war was possible during the Cold War and tried to prepare for it and maybe even survive it. Can a society survive a nuclear war? Should it plan to?

Just as every war teaches lessons that the smarter combatants learn, the Iran fighting in 2025 and 2026 taught Israel a great deal. And while the second round went longer and led to more physical damage, there were fewer killed in the longer 2026 battle. Israel refined its interception tactics, and Israelis made more effort to get to bomb shelters or protected rooms. Obviously, a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile would ostensibly still be subject to interception and destruction. On the descending side, running to a bomb shelter or locking oneself in a reinforced room would mean nothing if the same was vaporized by a reasonably strong nuclear blast.

To use a nuclear bomb, a country or rogue actor needs three things:

A means of delivery—possibly a missile, but could be a suitcase as well.

The will to use it and expect whatever payback may come.

It is somewhat of a miracle that no nuclear device has been used in anger since August 1945. Even with the expansion of the........

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