Does Mutually Assured Destruction still work?

> each of which can be aimed at individual targets once their launchers boost them into space

MIRV haven't been news for decades.

> Well, America has been surprised before, at Pearl Harbor and 911, for instance.

> Whoa! If MAD worked as advertised, there would have been no disarming first strike!

What on earth is this article? This genuinely seems like it was written by someone who learned about nuclear posturing 10 minutes ago.

> We could expeditiously return to the Cold-War posture of dispersing our bombers and tankers to numerous bases and placing them on continuous alert, armed, and ready to take off quickly based on warnings of hostile missile launches.

In the same vein as Operation Chrome Dome, which was not a resounding success, see "Accidents" on wiki.