Source: TomDispatch
by William Astore
“It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF). Along with the usual warrior talk, the CSAF vowed to ‘relentlessly advocate’ for the new Sentinel ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) and the B-21 Raider stealth bomber. While the Air Force often speaks of ‘investing’ in new nukes, this time the CSAF opted for ‘recapitalization,’ a remarkably bloodless term for the creation of a whole new generation of genocidal thermonuclear weapons and their delivery systems. … In my Cheyenne Mountain days, circa 1985, the new ‘must have’ bomber was the B-1 Lancer and the new ‘must have’ ICBM was the MX Peacekeeper.” (12/02/25)