Your post would be better without the snark and cult comment...but: 1. The Ohio class subs are quite old and no one knows with any real certainty that they rem

Your post would be better without the snark and cult comment...but: 1. The Ohio class subs are quite old and no one knows with any real certainty that they remain untrackable. It's entirely possible they are being tracked through some unknown mechanism like new classes of drones, sensors, info leaks, spies, etc. And your response proves my point: everyone is banking on the Ohio class subs as the trump card. But if they're wrong, we're in a very precarious situation. Hence the need to revamp and expand the other legs of the triad. 2. SpaceX had "no competency" in creating rockets and spaceships until they did. And now they're objectively better than most governments at it. Creating a reentry vehicle that launches on one of their existing platforms doesn't seem implausible, at all. This is probably easier than most of their previous work. Unlike the legacy U.S. defense companies, SpaceX delivers on a budget and time scale that makes choosing them the obvious option. But it probably makes sense to have another company also work on improving the nuclear response.