Will the threat of a continued sequester yield rational changes to the U.S. nuclear weapons program?
It won't save much money in the short run, but it's an opportunity to apply some logic to the Cold War thinking that hangs over these most destructive weapons.
The fiscal 2014 continuing resolution, thanks to sequestration, cuts almost $1 billion from President Barack Obama's requested $7.9 billion for the weapons program of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Energy Department outfit that runs the nation's nuclear weapons complex.