More on H1-B: I've addressed this 18 y ago in The Black Swan: America's edge is in risk taking, not education. Any idiot can have education; you need to learn to fail. The American system has been based on trial and error. Which is why foreigners succeed here not at home. https://t.co/d8ZVQQ7FEG

When asked what the JSTPS actually did, the officer explained that they take all the weapons that are assigned to SAC and aim them at all the targets on the list. The code was unlocked. It turned out that the war plan was based on supply, not demand — on how many weapons SAC happened to have , not on how many were needed.

But analysts in the Navy’s official think tank came up with a new strategic idea: finite deterrence . All the U.S. needed, they argued, was enough nuclear weapons to destroy the 100 largest cities in the Soviet Union; this could be done with a mere 640 mis -siles in 40 submarines