I WAS HOPING FOR AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: As U.S. Modernizes Nuclear Weapons, ‘Smaller’ Leaves Some Uneasy. “The B61 Model 12, the bomb flight-tested last year in Nevada, is the first of five new warhead types planned as part of an atomic revitalization estimated to cost up to $1 trillion over three decades. As a family, the weapons and their delivery systems move toward the small, the stealthy and the precise.”

The way things are going, I fear we’ll be wanting the large, the obvious, and the indiscriminate.