America is waiting for an answer of some kind or another...

Could it be that the "Destroy All Monsters" ethos of the Second Amendment remedy/solution supporters has its origin in Cold War lunacy?

from Wikipedia:

The Sky Scorcher project was proposed by the Convair Division of General Dynamics to the United States Air Force in 1956.[1] The missile was intended to be carried by an advanced, enlarged version of Convair's F-106 Delta Dart interceptor,[2] which had, at the time, not yet entered flight testing even in its baseline form.[3]

Sky Scorcher was a very large missile, which was projected to be capable of carrying a thermonuclear warhead with a yield of two megatons.[2] The oversized warhead would be used against attacking formations of supersonic bombers; it was anticipated that fourteen such initiations, at a distance of approximately 460 miles (740 km) from the bombers' target, would be sufficient to disrupt an attack. A force of eighty of the advanced fighters were proposed for carrying the weapon.[2]

Despite Convair's sales pitch and the anticipated effectiveness of the weapon, the Air Force was unenthusiastic about the concept; aside from the expense of developing the aircraft and weapon, the Sky Scorcher missile also suffered from the fact that the initiation of a multi-megaton warhead would produce significant effects on the ground below the location of the airburst.[2] As a result, the project was abandoned before any significant work was undertaken.[2]

References

   1. Hansen 1995
   2. a b c d e Parsch 2007