Dominic Cummings: given they don’t take nuclear weapons seriously, never assume they’re taking X seriously

For many years I’ve said that a Golden Rule of politics is that, given our leaders don’t take nuclear weapons seriously, never assume they’re taking X seriously and there is a team deployed on X with the incentives and skills to succeed.

People think this is an overstated metaphor but I always meant it literally.

Having explored the nuclear enterprise with deep state officials 2019-20, I can only stress just how extremely literally I mean this Golden Rule.

https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/people-ideas-machines-ii-catastrophic

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