“...165,000 pounds of advanced electronics.”
Really? That’s going to take a lot of fuel to keep it up there then. And if it’s a real ‘apocalypse’, where are the refueling planes going to take off from? It would probably be money better spent keeping the whole country safe.
And what are the electronics going to link to? In a nuclear winter there will be no ground control?
I would think that one of the few up sides of a holocaust would be the obliteration of all political leadership. Who, other than their precious selves, is genuinely interested in keeping their sorry a****s alive?
There are precious few whom I would want to trade places with my daughter on the last train out of town.