Nuclear armageddon

The NYT is to be commended for running this feature and this one.  The risk of a nuclear war, including an accidental one, is only going to increase as the speed with which interballistic missles travel increases, and the time for fateful decisions is cut shorter.  The only countervailing development may be improved detection, both in speed and reliability.  Barring that, I can't see how we are not going to see nuclear weapons used in the next couple of decades.  As the first NYT feature notes, we need to start "imagining" nuclear war more, not less.