And that has now seeped into nuclear command and control decision-making. A joint army-air force makes eminent sense. While the air force is used to strategic bombing, the army has handled missiles. So the air force talent for planning distant bombing can be merged with the army's hands-on experience with missiles. But stories of army-air force rivalry over nuclear weapons are unsettling.
Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction.
They ought not to be possessed. But if they have to be possessed, then failsafe command and control systems must be created after extensive internal debates and deliberations. The value of these systems lies in consensus, in their smooth functioning, not in rancour or in a feeling of one-upmanship. Their credibility and deterrence value derive from there. Whoever put out this irresponsible story must be sacked.