The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine

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The DOD wants to refurbish ICBM silos that give it the ability to end civilization. But these missiles are useless as weapons, and their other main purpose—attracting an enemy’s nuclear strikes—serves no end.

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