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tl;dr: No it isn’t, and that has implications for a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve...
As a child of the Cold War, I was fascinated by a recent visit to the Titan Missile Museum south of Tucson, Arizona. The museum is on the site of a decommissioned land-based nuclear missile, which was once part of a group of similar sites in southern Arizona which were part of the U.S.’s second strike nuclear capability. These sites were designed with heavy armor to hopefully survive a nuclear first strike launched by an adversary and be able to launch a retaliatory strike. The threat of a retaliatory strike would deter an adversary from launching a first strike. Given that no adversary launched a first strike while these sites were operational it achieved that goal, although it was very expensive...
The control room at the Titan Missile Musuem
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