Secure
The silos lie beneath the ground
in bat-shit crazy western states.
Inside one, Lesley Stahl presents
a pair of clean-cut twenty-somethings
charged with cold war protocols
served by antique computers
(floppies the size of LPs) run
by code last written and understood
by tech guys either dead now
or drooling in old age homes.
No ones knows how to fix them
but no one knows how to hack them.
This is the Minuteman tine
of the three-tined fork
we can stick into the modern world
when it's done-- a MAD triad.
It's better to think, instead,
of Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber,
and the closing price of shares
in Berkshire Hathaway.
in bat-shit crazy western states.
Inside one, Lesley Stahl presents
a pair of clean-cut twenty-somethings
charged with cold war protocols
served by antique computers
(floppies the size of LPs) run
by code last written and understood
by tech guys either dead now
or drooling in old age homes.
No ones knows how to fix them
but no one knows how to hack them.
This is the Minuteman tine
of the three-tined fork
we can stick into the modern world
when it's done-- a MAD triad.
It's better to think, instead,
of Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber,
and the closing price of shares
in Berkshire Hathaway.
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Author's Note
The Triad: Minutemen in silos, Polaris ICBMs in submarines, and good old fashioned B-somethings with descendants of Little Boy and Fat Man.
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The absurdity of our world perfectly captured. *
The-truth-is-scary done well, Gary.
So T. S. was right... not with a bang, but a Bieber?
A horrible reminder of how much, just how much time I waste on sites like TMZ.*
No, I won't think about Justin Bieber, but Kim K.? Well, now, that's tempting. *
JLD wins the comment kudo. *
Thank you all for your attention and remarks.
We always prefer to look the other way...have you read Eric Schlosser's In Command and Control about the many near disasters siloed missiles and nuclear bombs have caused?*
Thanks, Gary. It's still a MAD mad world.