Red China has nuclear weapons. . .

. . .as does that model of sanity, North Korea, not to mention the serenely stable Pakistan, its unfriendly neighbor India, trigger-happy Israel, and Iran, the land of the mad mullahs, as we read every day is doing its best to get hold of some. Some unsavoury folks in Russia apparently have access to some and would like to sell them for a good price. And most, if not all, of these folks are working on their delivery capabilities.

So what to do? Why, close Cheyenne Mountain, the best-defended spot on the planet, of course. The place that tracked the North Korean missile launches a few weeks ago.

The mandatory "efficiency" and "strengthening our defense" bumpf aside, it seems to be something the bean counters came up with. The Washington Post has it here. As does this site, which brings to mind the law of unintended consequences.

And the whole thing first noticed here.