Picture of the week

by | Nov 19, 2010


You have to love this picture that Wired.com used to illustrate a story about US surveillance of Russian nuclear weapons.

What tickles me is the fact that the launcher has not one, not two but three fire extinguishers fixed to the front – as though three would somehow offer more protection than one or two if this baby caught fire.

One imagines a grizzled colonel of artillery opining, “Look, Yuri, you can’t be too careful where nukes are concerned…”

Author

  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.


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